If you're excited that things are entering the #PublicDomain — which you should be! — perhaps it's worth considering reforming copyright.
In many places currently it's 70 years after the death of the author, or longer. This is insanity.
An important piece of culture made by a young author could be locked behind copyright (with rights usually held by publishers, not authors themselves anyway) for over a *century*.
That's how you get #Disney to own almost everything.
Reform #copyright!
@rysiek Disney is well known for lobbying the US Congress about copyright extension. And it's not just about books or movies. The major music companies do pretty much the same. Their weapons are the #DMCA and ownership of platforms like #Spotify. The average costs of a copyright infringement lawsuit is around 400K USD, which is completely unaffordable, and a great part of copyrighted material is published via US based platforms. This system is perfectly built for massive corporations that are actively and effectively manipulating and exploiting a basic human right.
- just a thought.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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