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

It should be held by government and every company that makes money out of copyrighted material should pay it in taxes and authors should get money from government as long as they live. It can be steam % so 70% author 30% government. When author dies government gets 50% children gets 50% after that grand children 30% and then back to 0%.

This way each country would benefit from their brightest minds now it’s just foreign corporations benefit from everything.

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Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Honestly wet need to make insurance an obsolete custom. Keep personal items, but wealth should not be transferred

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- vane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t know what is your understanding of wealth but money is not wealth and never should be treated as one. Wealth are material things. Profit sharing is not wealth transfer it’s just paycheck.
  
  Wealth are audio records, movie records, books. Those are now inherited and monetized by corporations. What is benefit for you by living in country that had many famous musicians ? If you live in country that have oil you benefit from it.
  
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  - blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Are you having a stroke?
    
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AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Hmm. Interesting idea.

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- vane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s not idea, it’s how art worked since ancient times. Artists were always sponsored by kings and noble people and this art is now in museums, somehow along the way we put art in hands of corporations, and money in hands of idiots and leave countries with nothing. We have countries with ministry of culture that posses no culture. We pay taxes and get nothing back.
  
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  - blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    We pay taxes and get nothing back.
    
    Tbf, this has been the rule, not the exception, for most of recorded history.
    
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