>total copyright restructuring
Yes, please. Hell, throw patents in too while you're at it.
Yes, please. Hell, throw patents in too while you're at it.
The copyright owners are begging for a restructuring. One that would greatly increase their authority on two issues: AI use, and Internet website blocking.
Ask for a restructuring right now, and you’ll bring Japanese-style copyright to America (“fair use” doesn’t exist over there) with European-style judicial site blocking (and mass blocking of suspected piracy outlets).
If you want to see a world without fair use, check out the Japanese Wikipedia pages -- it's noticeably lacking in pictures and images than the English counterpart, likely because the latter was written by those in the U.S. It's especially ironic when there's more photos and images on the English language article for topics about Japan!
And with a German-style enforcement procedure (i.e. all copyright infringement is criminal, but personal non-commercial use is civil) and Mexican-style copyright term (120+ years after death).
How would you incentivize companies to spend years and millions in R&D, if anyone can benefit from their inventions immediately after they're done?
Patent trolls are a problem, patents themselves aren't
100% agree and I'm primary author on 2 software patents taken out by a former employer. Software is maths. Patenting a software process makes as little sense as allowing patents on any other mathematical function.
I also think business method patents in general are crazy, because pretty much all business processes have some sense of inevitability to them that in my view should fail the "obviousness" test for patentability. It seems the tide has turned against them officially too which I think is positive overall for society.[1]
[1] http://www.kilpatricktownsend.com/~/media/Files/articles/201...
Please refrain from implying that the question you're answering to was asked in bad faith. You're not "biting", you're answering a valid question.