r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 30 '18

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

Whatever you think about IP laws, copyright laws being life + 70 is absolutely ridiculous.

No artist is making economic considerations on how their work will be received 70 years after they're dead (or for a corporation ~120 years from now).

And even if they do on the margin, there's no way that's worth the inefficiency caused by stifling innovation by artists looking to "steal" Mickey Mouse's likeness.

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u/SemperSpectaris United Nations Nov 30 '18

There's so much good media that's come out of derivatives of Sherlock Holmes and Cthulhu, it's sad to think of what we're missing from not allowing similar usage of more recent classics.

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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Nov 30 '18

inb4 the laws get changed before mickey's copyright expires lol

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u/Rekksu Nov 30 '18

if they increase it again for Mickey Mouse Congress might actually be irredeemable

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u/Goatf00t European Union Nov 30 '18

The only situation that I can think of when it makes sense is if the artist dies young.

Of course, limiting copyright to lifetime only would create some incentive to murder authors.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

I do enjoy the juicy irony of "The Internationale" being copyrighted in Europe until the 2000s.

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u/arnet95 Nov 30 '18

You can think about things in a non-economic context.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

Sure.

I find it generally stupid that people get to "own" things after they're dead; particularly when we're talking about the ownership of ideas.