Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done

Re:Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done by Barrin92 on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:06PM (#29791186)

>. If value can only be extracted while the author draws breath, the market provides much less reward --- for the author, in this lifetime.

This is true for any kind of property tax is taxed or IP that expires, be it patents or land lease policies or whatever else. The less you can milk it the lower is its value. However given that we don't want to live in a necrocracy where the interests of the dead outweigh the interests of the living we've always balanced this, or we'd grant 1000 year patents.

Also as a sidenote if you look at most of humanities greatest works of art, if anything most of them obtained market value long after the creators were dead in the first place. If anything we're drowning in mediocre fiction precisely because we've commodified art.

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Re:Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done by tptacek on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:49PM (#29791466)

Again: it's not the interests of the dead. Those posthumous interests are priced into fees the authors collect in life. The proceeds of those interests don't just pay the original authors; they also subsidize future bets on other authors.

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