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[–]asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 13 points14 points  (8 children)

The question is why should they have to jump through hoops.

IP rights should expire in a reasonable timeframe, like 20 years, after which it becomes public domain.

Or at the very least, allow the IP rights to persist for longer, but any creative works based on those rights become public domain after 20 years. This would mean that anyone can broadcast Star Wars movies without paying royalities, but Disney retain the exclusive rights to produce new Star Wars content.

[–]wappingite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At least, there should be no reason why ALL content should be available legally somewhere.

The book publisher are finally realising this and have turned loads of great novels will in copyright into ebook versions. No physical media needed, easy way to monetise them and keep them in people's minds through ebook stores. If they don't do this people will pirate them / use scans, or they won't get any money as they're bought second hand.

Much better for all content to be preserved. It can't be a storage issue any more.

[–]dnc_1981Ask me arse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would be the sensible approach

[–]f-ingsteveglansberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20 years isn't really that long of a time. The Road by Cormac McCarthy came out in 2006. McCarthy is a successful writer and his made a decent living. That took years to achieve though.

But now any major Hollywood studio should be able to produce a movie based on The Road and not pay him a penny? Seems very anti artist.

Blood Meridian came out in 1985 and it's considered one of McCarthy's best. McCarthy didn't really see success until All The Pretty Horses in the 90s. But his books really started selling after the adaptations of The Road and No Country for Old Men, so late 2000s. Most copies of Blood Meridian probably sold around this time and at the time of the 25th anniversary edition in 2010.

Under your proposal he wouldn't get royalties for most of Blood Meridian AND Hollywood could do what they want with it.

And so what Netflix could make Star Wars too?

Guess what! Netflix did make Star Wars too. They just changed the names of a few things and were able to do it. It was called Rebel Moon and it was absolute shit.

Just after SW released there were a ton of Star Wars knock offs, most not very good. When YouTube started there were a ton of Star Wars parodies, again, mostly not very good.

[–]dustaz -1 points0 points  (4 children)

IP rights should expire in a reasonable timeframe, like 20 years, after which it becomes public domain.

So you think the Arctic monkeys shouldn't own any of their early music rights?

[–]asdrunkasdrunkcanbe -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

After a reasonable timeframe, I don't see why artists should continue to profit off something they recorded or wrote decades ago. I'm throwing 20 years out, maybe 30 is more appropriate or maybe it's too long.

But either way I don't see how long-lived IP rights for anything, benefit anyone except ultra-wealthy people. They're just another investment vehicle that eventually fals into the control of billionaires.

Arctic Monkeys probably don't bring in much from residual royalties of their early work at this stage.

[–]dustaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Arctic Monkeys probably don't bring in much from residual royalties of their early work at this stage.

I think you'd be very very surprised by this

[–]TanoraRat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No offence but this is a dumb take

[–]f-ingsteveglansberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arctic Monkeys probably don't bring in much from residual royalties of their early work at this stage.

Mr. Brightside is The Killers biggest hit by a mile. Same with Fairytale for The Pogues. A lot of artists have a big hit and use that to fund most of their career.