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 While totally agreed, I don't trust it to happen quickly

Stuff like this is why I'm adamant of folks creating new content under CC0, if only to help expand the public domain without having to wait for term expirations

@Ispod4 @rysiek All of my original music work is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial US 3.0, and I've written it into my will that when I die, all my work will enter the public domain.

I don't want to have an estate or trust; I want the public to do what they want at will after I cease to be.

@Ispod4 @rysiek In case you want to purchase/download my music, here's my bandcamp: https://ironcurtain.bandcamp.com
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I make chip music, and am based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. My mother, Dorothy Siegel, did the same back in 1978 (seen here: http://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/ ), making me a second generation chip musician. I play the Game Boy with LSDJ, as well as other retro game systems. Photo © 2012 Marjorie Becker, http://www.chiptography.com

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