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Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?

spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

So you would rather the publisher make the money instead of giving it to the family of the artist for a short period of time.

What terrible priorities.

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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t think they said a publisher was involved.

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- spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If the duration of copyright is short enough, why reduce it further based on heartbeat?
  
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  - paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Hmm, I think there may have been some confusion on my part here. I’m fine with copyright directly serving individual authors and their families.
    
    I’m not into how that is expanded and abused by corporations.
    
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wisely@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think they mean it would become public domain and nobody would make money off of it. Books could be downloaded or used for free without a publisher.

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- spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  People make money off of the public domain all the time. A publisher currently publishing a book when an artist dies would have one less expense as they continued to rake in the money.
  
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