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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Games should be public domain after 25 years, everything else at 50.

[–] infotainment 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

some book series take longer than that to finish

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might give George Martin some incentive to finish Winds of Winter though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think he even knows how to finish it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I agree. It's got to be a challenge to bring all his characters and plot lines together. Sadly, I think the show is the only ending we are going to get.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think it is the Lost problem. He's got all these hints and foreshadowing going and no idea where they're actually going. Disappointing and evidence of lazy writing, so I've stopped reading his works overall

[–] Khanzarate 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but if someone wants to write their own sequel to a first book, before the series is done, that's fine. Still not canon, just fanfic that can make a profit, and that sounds fine to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happens when grifters generate a billion AI knockoffs and an artist can't protect their intellectual property

[–] Khanzarate 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The above was advocating for a 25-year period between publishing and public domain. They'll have to somehow pay that mortgage with a quarter of a century of profit somehow.

New books get new protections anyway, so a 25-year-old series only loses book 1 to public domain. They can also release new editions of book 1 with new (canon) content, and those new things get new protections, too.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

10, actually, is what he said

[–] TeoTwawki 5 points 1 year ago

I think at a minimum if you stop publishing and supporting your own work you shouldn't get to cry copyright whem somebody else does. For that context 10 certainly seems plenty long..