Post AXbDjl0UHbnqXTIX7g by cazabon@mindly.social
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(DIR) Post #AXanhsdmKfjkpL7Wuu by tilvids@mstdn.social
2023-07-11T18:08:39Z
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This is what happens when you have hostile #copyright and IP laws that were custom-tailored to enrich a handful of individual corporate interests, rather than benefit the public good. Copyright law needs to be burned to the ground and re-written in a way that solves problems like this. 🔥 https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/87-of-classic-games-are-out-of-print-thats-a-problem-for-gaming-history/
(DIR) Post #AXaoFBTDLTH0mZ3ke0 by PublicLewdness@freespeechextremist.com
2023-07-11T18:14:43.064756Z
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@tilvids Agreed but overhaul would take a while. In the mean time it's just another reason to support FOSS games over closed source ones.
(DIR) Post #AXaoGxyYULhfVcZKlc by tilvids@mstdn.social
2023-07-11T18:15:01Z
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Copyright law should look like the following:0 to 10 years: Automatic protection, $0.11 to 20 years: Renewal required, $1,000 to renew.21 to 30 years: Renewal required, $10,000 to renew.31 to 40 years: Renewal required, $100,000 to renew.41 to 50 years: Renewal required, $1,000,000 to renew.51 to 60 years: Renewal required, $10,000,000 to renew.No renewal possible past 60 years, it passes into public domain. Use all the funds collected to help the USPTO administrate the new system.
(DIR) Post #AXaoYFU8dsKujiaBBg by thingsiplay@mstdn.games
2023-07-11T18:18:05Z
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@tilvids That's why emulation (and piracy) is important to preserve videogames. And I am a believer that illegally distributed games is part of preservation, as stupid as this sounds at first glance.
(DIR) Post #AXaoxjYLzGW5EKhr7I by ncrav@mas.to
2023-07-11T18:22:42Z
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@tilvids although I would compute it at a percentage of profits so to not undeservingly give the wealthy more power.
(DIR) Post #AXap8tuboTUcXkROsa by tilvids@mstdn.social
2023-07-11T18:24:45Z
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@thingsiplay Indeed. Additionally, platforms like Nintendo's Switch Online wouldn't exist if the emulation scene hadn't spent the previous 20 years proving out the market interest (much of which was also borrowed by Nintendo for their service).Remember, for every Steamboat Willie and Beatles White Album that a corporation is able to continue capitalizing on, the cost is thousands of orphaned works that will never be seen again.And the mouse's time is coming...https://www.freewillie.net
(DIR) Post #AXapGNQAUuqO5hldqq by baruch@babka.social
2023-07-11T18:26:03Z
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@tilvids It must also be easy to determine whether anyone holds a copyright claim or it has passed into public domain. Currently, many works that are probably in public domain can't be used just in case someone will show up and sue with a copyright claim.
(DIR) Post #AXapNhCNMbZPSOo2Ns by tilvids@mstdn.social
2023-07-11T18:27:25Z
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@baruch Indeed. The system above would help with that, because it would allow the USPTO to have additional resources to track and build a good online system for determining the state of registered works.
(DIR) Post #AXaqSR173PHuflMTKK by peotr26@fosstodon.org
2023-07-11T18:39:28Z
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@tilvids What about removing copyright all together. Its a shitty system that is designed around capitalism. It doesn't protect small creators, and enrich very few people.
(DIR) Post #AXb368ijhJuqxcStfM by ZILtoid1991@mastodon.world
2023-07-11T21:01:06Z
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@tilvids I would also tie it to still being in print after 20-30 years or so
(DIR) Post #AXbDjl0UHbnqXTIX7g by cazabon@mindly.social
2023-07-11T23:00:19Z
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@tilvids I'd go simpler. Revert to the original system.Automatic: 14 years. Registration gets you some benefits, like today.Additional, with explicit renewal: 14 years.Then public domain.If, after 14 years, the owner of the copyright can't be bothered to renew it, then it drops into the public domain at that point. It clearly had no commercial value left, or the ownership has been lost and no one would be able to license it anyway.
(DIR) Post #AXcMbsBYnplnEQkiLA by Flux@social.fluxfox.dev
2023-07-12T12:14:42Z
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@tilvids This gives too much leverage to larger entities, instead I propose a 20 year cap and a revenue based percentage with revenue needing to be declared specifically.Also to ensure that the original work can be used in it's entirely, contracts like EULAs and copyright protections fall apart once the work has reached the public domain with the source files related to the work film, code, assets, documentation, etc. Are released to the public in full. To ensure that the work is fully usable