How Long Copyright Keep On Being Admitted?
2005.06.15 0:06

The concept of copyright is a strange thing, nothing can change the fact that Chopin composed Fantasia Impromptu, and his copyright might have lasted sometime after his death. Copyright is an economic right, which enables him and people surrounding him to guarntee some sort of wealth the works generate. But after sometime- 50 years? or 90 years? the right cease to exist. Copyright and patent guarantee inventors to get compensated for what they came up. The longer the better, while some argue the extension of those rights inhibit others to reuse the copyrighted/ patented materials, therefore inhibit further progress.
I have no idea.
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It's a bloody hard balancing act(Score:2)
by Morosoph (693565) on 2005.06.15 9:03 (#12819129) (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.wesson/ Last Journal: 2005.09.17 20:46)
But what I do know is that the initial period of copyright is most useful (typically you want to do something with your creation sooner rather than later).
Patents are granted for twenty years; copyright has always typically been longer. I would expect that what the long process of evolution has given us (50 years) is probably about right (but see below), but I would be inclined for a shorter (although perhaps more strongly enforced) period, rather than a longer one.
When you had to register your copyright, there was a lot in the culture that could be reused immediately, since it hadn't been registered. This meant that those works that were registered could have a longer period of protection without causing too much harm to the underlying culture. Now I think that 20 years is right. Perhaps a good compromise is that unregistered copyright lasts for ten years, but register, and you get it for fifty.--Why you Should use 'Viral' Licenses [slashdot.org]
Re:It's a bloody hard balancing act(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) on 2005.06.17 21:39 (#12840443) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.09.27 11:22)
For a couple of days, I was reading articles on copyright, some of their information was new to me, for example, someone explains how different the copyright in the case of music industry and authors of the books, etc., and the others try to explain how different the nature of copyright is from other, say, fundamental rights, all are interesting and beneficial to me. It takes some time to conceive my idea on this matter. But thanks for a favourable comment as you mentioned above.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters