I don’t unterstand why copyright would last longer than the lifetime of the authors who were part of the creative process. It doesn’t make sense that it can be transferred like it is
Hell, let’s compromise and say 20 years after the author’s death. In case they have a small child at the time of death and said child’s other parent isn’t capable of the kid’s upkeep, a little extra would help.
But what is it right now? 70 years? Literally no excuse for that.
I understand them lasting for a certain time so the authors can get a compensation for what they have worked for. Of course people are allowed to quote things and use the content in a transformative way like in the German urheberrechts laws.
Without royalties or copyright it’s difficult to earn enough money for living as an artist. If there was proper support and compensation for artists there would be no reason for copyright law.
I don’t unterstand why copyright would last longer than the lifetime of the authors who were part of the creative process. It doesn’t make sense that it can be transferred like it is
Because Disney lobbied for the time to be raised again and again
I know why it is the case but it doesn’t make sense from a logical perspective that isn’t capitalistically oriented
Well … yeah? Of course a capitalist decision only makes sense under capitalism.
Hell, let’s compromise and say 20 years after the author’s death. In case they have a small child at the time of death and said child’s other parent isn’t capable of the kid’s upkeep, a little extra would help.
But what is it right now? 70 years? Literally no excuse for that.
At some point it just becomes a tool for making money off of other people’s works
Why do they last more than a year?
Why do they exist at all?
I understand them lasting for a certain time so the authors can get a compensation for what they have worked for. Of course people are allowed to quote things and use the content in a transformative way like in the German urheberrechts laws.
Without royalties or copyright it’s difficult to earn enough money for living as an artist. If there was proper support and compensation for artists there would be no reason for copyright law.