Reverse image search yielded a bunch of tumblr blogs and nothing else so I don’t know the artist unfortunately. If anyone does I’ll add it to the post
Reverse image search yielded a bunch of tumblr blogs and nothing else so I don’t know the artist unfortunately. If anyone does I’ll add it to the post
Yeah I got to say the more and more I think about it, the more I think it is ethical. Because if you want to use his work in perpetuity you should hire him for the amount of time you use it. Or work out some kind of long-term profit sharing. If it’s for a one-time use of their skills you shouldn’t get to own the copyright of it. So yeah I’m going to say completely ethical.
I argue that we should abolish copyright. However to be a bit more pragmatic, if we were to keep copyright, it should be for 10 years from publication. You can apply to have it extended another 10 years but with a fee attached to approve it per work. This means people can still have some control of the work for a decade after completion and if it is still worth while, they can get another decade. But after that, it is public domain.
I’d be curious to see how much money content makes every year after creation. Surely they make the vast vast majority of their money in the first few years. Surely you shouldn’t need 150+ years or whatever for a profit.
Exactly. I once saw a discussion with some authors and this came up. Some one proposed that copyright should be 10 years, and one of the authors said “Oh no, we cannot do that, that is way too long. 5 years tops!” Most sales are in the first 2 years and that is if you are lucky.
My proposal of 10 years plus a single extension is for those that get luck in having a semi-ever green back log.
I put my money were my mouth is. In a few years I will directly be inheriting the rights to a large volume of print works that apparently makes a few thousand dollars a year, the day I get those right I am just going to public domain the lot of them. Let the works be free, I didn’t make it, I didn’t earn it and information wants to be free.