[furquhart]

Why? This is a great chance for us to get out in front and tap into the youth vote!

Seriously. Think about it. Copyright Reform ought to be a Republican issue. We limit copyrights to, oh, say twenty-five years - or the death of the author, plus ten years. And we do it retroactively. Boom, we destroy half of Hollywood and the music industry overnight.

[weegee]

Retrotactively repealing copyright extensions does not sound far off considering they were RETROACTIVELY REINSTATED under Bill Clinton.

[weegee]

To clarify, works that HAD indeed lapsed into the public domain and were being used as such, such as It’s A Wonderful Life (a film that owes its very success to its public domain nature) is no longer a public domain work.

Yet George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead which is ERRONEOUSLY listed as public domain (because of an issue with how the titles were printed when the original film prints were struck) is STILL trafficked by public domain companies (and big companies like TURNER too).

[B Knotts]

Even 25 years, plus one possible renewal would be a huge improvement over the current situation.

[zeugma]

Seriously. Think about it. Copyright Reform ought to be a Republican issue. We limit copyrights to, oh, say twenty-five years - or the death of the author, plus ten years. And we do it retroactively. Boom, we destroy half of Hollywood and the music industry overnight.

 

I'm 100% behind you on that, but it will never happen because congress is an easy buy when you have billions of dollars available to you. 

[dbehsman]

Seriously. Think about it. Copyright Reform ought to be a Republican issue. We limit copyrights to, oh, say twenty-five years - or the death of the author, plus ten years. And we do it retroactively. Boom, we destroy half of Hollywood and the music industry overnight.

AMEN!

A patent is only good for 25 years. A patent provides a much better life for everybody as opposed to the garbage being produced by Hellywood. There is NO REASON why a copyright should last longer than a patent. Personally, I don't think a copyright should be good for more than five years.