grue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoCourts are coming for digital librariesreason.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1309arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: articles@lemmy.world
arrow-up1307arrow-down1external-linkCourts are coming for digital librariesreason.comgrue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: articles@lemmy.world
minus-squareArmok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·11 days agoCopyright protects already executed ideas, stripping that protection down to less than a decade would be completely unhelpful.
minus-squareGeneral_Effort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 days 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.