I think at a minimum if you stop publishing and supporting your own work you shouldn’t get to cry copyright whem somebody else does. For that context 10 certainly seems plenty long…
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infotainment@lemmy.world 10 months agoWhy not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.
TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 10 months ago
some book series take longer than that to finish
Sendbeer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Might give George Martin some incentive to finish Winds of Winter though.
Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t think he even knows how to finish it
Sendbeer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh yeah I agree. It’s got to be a challenge to bring all his characters and plot lines together. Sadly, I think the show is the only ending we are going to get.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah but if someone wants to write their own sequel to a first book, before the series is done, that’s fine. Still not canon, just fanfic that can make a profit, and that sounds fine to me.
Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What happens when grifters generate a billion AI knockoffs and an artist can’t protect their intellectual property
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The above was advocating for a 25-year period between publishing and public domain. They’ll have to somehow pay that mortgage with a quarter of a century of profit somehow.
New books get new protections anyway, so a 25-year-old series only loses book 1 to public domain. They can also release new editions of book 1 with new (canon) content, and those new things get new protections, too.