January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all

Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by ROTMetro on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:05PM (#34074805)

And then people won't release their works. Why should I invest time/energy/my money/long nights not spent having fun to create something that I won't own, have control over, or profit from? What is my incentive. Sure, some people are down for that, but we created copyright laws because otherwise we miss out on a ton of valuable stuff to society, more valuable than handing over copyright works to the public. Society decided this and has benefited hugely (as in hands). You want to re-write the rules because 'it doesn't work' makes no sense. We have record amounts of IP being created, how does it not work? Are there not books being written? So it's working. Are there movies being made? So it's working. Are there video games being made? So it's working. Is there music being made? So it's working. Are business processes being improved? So it's working. Show HOW it's not working on a level that we risk destroying all of that creation and those creators livelihoods and incomes. And not 'it's not working, 20 years only!'. That is not an argument.

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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by krapp on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:19PM (#34074950)

>Why should I invest time/energy/my money/long nights not spent having fun to create something that I won't own, have control over, or profit from?

You get an exclusive monopoly and profit for twenty years, that seems long enough. Expecting the gravy train to run for the rest of your life, if not longer, is excessive. And I disagree with the premise that all human creative effort would cease were that to change.

>You want to re-write the rules because 'it doesn't work' makes no sense.

I don't know why you're quoting an argument I didn't make, or why you wasted the bulk of your comment rebutting it.

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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by realusername on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:01PM (#34075338)

First there's a lot of content which isn't produced because of the restrictions, you just don't see it. Remixes, different takes into existing content.

Secondly and this is where the current system fails the hardest is that you have to preserve culture.

Most of the older niche content is actually preserved by piracy right now and would be gone otherwise. There's no way to preserve content in the current model, content is just created and then thrown away.

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