grue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoCourts are coming for digital librariesreason.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: articles@lemmy.world
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minus-squareArmok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·1 month agoCopyright protects already executed ideas, stripping that protection down to less than a decade would be completely unhelpful.
minus-squareGeneral_Effort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoNot quite. You can’t turn movies into books or games, or vice versa, for example. Sometimes such projects get stuck in limbo. Or think about how everyone hated the final season of Game of Thrones. Can’t do anything about that in our life times.
Copyright protects already executed ideas, stripping that protection down to less than a decade would be completely unhelpful.
Not quite. You can’t turn movies into books or games, or vice versa, for example. Sometimes such projects get stuck in limbo. Or think about how everyone hated the final season of Game of Thrones. Can’t do anything about that in our life times.