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
@rysiek I've been hesitant in doing the same, if only bc I want as few restrictions as possible for the benefit of the greater culture.
That said, I've also heard tell of a P2P license hiding under the sofa. From what I understand about it, it's similar to CC, but requires derivatives to be made on an individual basis -- thus keeping corporate vultures out of it
@Ispod4 I would want some serious lawyers to have a look at this license. CC has been around for decades and is legally sound. I do not have that same confidence in many new "anticapitalist" licenses. Plus, they fracture the commons.
But that's a separate debate I guess. 🙂
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