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The ultimate copyright strike

Copyright, as a protection and law, has been around for hundreds of years.

The goal of copyright was to provide "artists" (ie: creative folk) the opportunity to earn money from their efforts by preventing others from copying and performing "creative works" without permission and possibly compensation.

As a concept, it's a laudible one.

Recent implementations of copyright law however, seem to have lost their connection with the original goals and objectives.

For example, if copyright was designed to ensure that an artist could protect their earnings from unlawful duplication or performance then there's little point in such protection extending beyond the death of the creator. Once you're dead, you no longer need copyright protection do you?

In an era when patents are only valid for less than two decades, why should copyright extend for another lifetime beyond the death of the person who creates an artistic work?

Indeed, there was a time when copyrighted works automatically fell into the public domain (for the benefit of *everyone*) after a reasonable length of time. Sadly, due to commercial pressures from large recording and movie companies, that "length of time" has repeatedly been extended until it now seems as if copyright is almost perpetual.

The public domain is being starved of legacy content that should regularly be boosting its size and scope.

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