[ SECRET POST #5561 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5561 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Why is leaving the rights to the family for 70 years absurd? I’m just asking why you specifically think it is, not trying to agree or disagree one way or the other.

But yes, US copyright law is indeed bad.

[(Anonymous)]

One, in general, I think the public-interest arguments for letting things enter the public domain are extremely strong.

Two, the argument for copyright as inheritance is that it's for the benefit of surviving relatives, right? So you have to think about it in terms of lifespans of surviving relatives. And in that context, a 70 year term means that the copyright will almost certainly be longer than the lifespan of any children of the original creator. Even in the case where a creator leaves behind a newborn child, the copyright will be in that child's possession for nearly all of their life. In cases where the author leaves behind adult children, which is probably more common, it's likely that the copyright will span a significant portion of the lifetime of the grandchildren of the original creator, and it's very possible that the copyright will last into the lifetime of their great-grandchildren or even further. My great-grandmother lived into her 90s; if she had been an author, her works would have remained under copyright until I was in my 80s.

So, when you take into account the strong public interest in seeing things enter the public domain, I just don't think there's a good argument for saying that inheritance means we need to let things remain under the control of the original creator's family for several generations.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the well written reply! What you said makes total sense to me, so I agree.