Thursday, January 3, 2008

Take copyright away from corporations?

This blogger suggests taking the current 125 year copyright away from corporations, who sue people for legal uses of copyrighted material. He suggests bringing it down to five years.

Individuals would still get to copyright stuff for a long time, just not companies.

While I think it would be an improvement, I do think he goes too far. I'd be content with the original 28 year copyright term. Long enough to provide an incentive to make stuff, to make money. Short enough to allow cool stuff to become public domain, so we can creatively adapt it.

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