Subj : most money made within 5 yrs.
To   : Adept
From : Ogg
Date : Sat Dec 14 2024 09:09 am

Hello Adept!

 Og>> There are many examples of cases where a work gains attention
 Og>> or a resurgence many years later. So..  to assume the initial 5
 Og>> yrs is when "most of the money is made" is not necessarily
 Og>> true.

 A> It is absolutely true in the way I meant it, which is that,
 A> for the total value produced by copyrighted works, "most of
 A> the money made from copyrighted things by the original
 A> makers would still be made" with a copyright of 5 years.

One example of what I speak.. Wonkey Donkey - was out of print  
for many years, until there was a video of a grandma reading  
the book to a kid. The publisher re-released the book and made  
a much bigger killing than originally.


 A> This is likely to be true, because it has been reliably
 A> true in the past, and there's no reason to think it'll
 A> change.

It's probably an expectation, but not necessarily always true.  
It really depends on marketing.


 A> Obviously, the estate of William Shakespeare would be
 A> making a killing, if copyright were forever, even if most
 A> of the rest of writing from that era would likely never be
 A> worth re-publishing or writing derivative works from.

I'm not talking about pothumus works.


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