Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Jan 2, 2023

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!

Show threadMachine GrrrlJan 2, 2023
@rysiek It is one of my worst enemies as a film historian. I restore old films but copyright keep me from accessing and saving films. They eventually end up being destroyed by time, or poor storage, or just locked away in some archive. Films donated to archives can be locked away even longer due to other rights, rights made by those who donate. They can keep films away from people just because they say so. Art is under threat by many factors but copyright is one of the worst.
Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Jan 2, 2023

@MachineGrrrl 💯

It's infuriating. How much art have we lost *because* it was not allowed to be preserved for posterity due to corporate copyright gobblers.

Show threadSpark Purcell (they/them)
@rysiek @MachineGrrrl intellectual property is theft from the Commons.
Jan 2, 2023 at 9:47pmWeb