| ▲ | kazinator 7 hours ago |
| Your copyrighted work just has to be an original expression, not derived from someone else's work. It doesn't have to contain original ideas. Patents are for ideas. Patents do in fact expire far faster than copyrights in the USA. The main problem with patents is patent trolling in the area of software patents. |
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| ▲ | ars 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| It would be a lot easier to defend copyright if it expired quicker. |
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| ▲ | kazinator 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I used to be against copyright, but with the rise of scum like Altman, I'm going all in. Copyright should last forever, as long as the ownership is handed down through inheritance or other transactions and not assigned to the public domain. | | |
| ▲ | ars 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why should someone be able to charge multiple times for the same thing? That entire concept is a legal fiction, and the compromise was to make it last only a limited time. |
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