In a sane world, media copyrights would expire, and material would pass into the public domain, after copyright holders have had a reasonable opportunity to monetize it.
Copyright hoarders wouldn't reap a perpetual windfall from ancient books, films, and sound recordings. Rather than being held for ransom well past their merchantable prime, venerated icons of our culture would at last be subsumed into our actual commonly-held culture. I mean since the original artists died 40 years ago and are giving few fucks about it anyway.
We should have the public license to edit an old movie, change the soundtrack, or whatever, and freely distribute the result. Instead, we're forced to stitch together tantalizing glimpses from a cacophony of fragments:
Copyright hoarders wouldn't reap a perpetual windfall from ancient books, films, and sound recordings. Rather than being held for ransom well past their merchantable prime, venerated icons of our culture would at last be subsumed into our actual commonly-held culture. I mean since the original artists died 40 years ago and are giving few fucks about it anyway.
We should have the public license to edit an old movie, change the soundtrack, or whatever, and freely distribute the result. Instead, we're forced to stitch together tantalizing glimpses from a cacophony of fragments:
