Public Domain Day 2020

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17 points·danielrpa··5 comments

Reading this page managed to make me deeply unsettled and unsatisfied. 1924. How many people do you know who were in their teens or twenties during 1924? You don't. It's completely ridiculous. Our history is being ripped away from us. We should be getting works from the 1960s now, not table scraps from 96 years ago.

This is said all of the time, but the people who caused Eternal Copyright are going to go down in history as men and women who intentionally handicapped the human race, if there are even history books by then: who knows, they may apply copyright to history itself! Only the Walt Disney Company gets to write history, and in it Mickey and Bob Iger shall save our children singlehandedly from the horror of media that dares not to be owned by a gigacorporation.

I'd argue we should be getting works from the 90s now. 25 years is enough for patents, why not for copyrights?

Because that would force media companies to compete with their own old content. If people could see movies from the 80s and 90s for free, many might choose them over newer stuff.

Actually, free viewing isn't the problem. Production is. I'm sure if Disney were offered a choice between "Allow everyone to view old content free" and "Allow anyone to make Disney content," they'd pick the former.

Copyrights make sense for producers for a large span of time, just not this large of a span of time.

I doubt that it lowers much.

You can easily pirate stuff anyway, but people choose to pay for good quality new content.

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