Italy Decides That Leonardo da Vinci’s 500 Year Old Works Are Not Public Domain

That's great! I'm sure that da Vinci's heirs (or successors in interest) will treat this economic incentive as such, and start creating a lot more content. We'll all be treated to many more "Monas", and more entries in the "Chapel" franchise!

We can build better billing technology so that the so-called public domain isn't necessary. All content creators and their heirs or successors in interest can be incentivized correctly.

Italian law applies only in Italy. Other countries determine their own copyright expiration durations.

They should have copyrighted them in America then. American law applies globally

Only 500 years? Bloody amateurs!...

https://stiobhart.net/2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/

I have it on good authority that the Lascaux Cave Paintings [0] were done by my great-great-great-<snip>-great-grandfather Ugg and I hereby copyright them for all eternity.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux