Copyright and patent laws need to die.
They don’t need to die, they need to go back to what they used to be. The first copyright law was called the Statute of Anne and it covered a work for 14 years.
That’s a totally reasonable amount of time for an author/publisher to make their money. And it’s reasonable for creators to want to get paid for their work.
And then it should be public domain.
No, they need to die.
If you can’t protect your own ideas, you shouldn’t get to rely on the government to do it for you.
How are you proposing that people protect their own ideas?
Say you write a book. You self-publish. A big publisher CTRL-C/CTRL-Vs your book and publishes it themselves with their access to distribution networks and advertising budgets. Now you sell 0 copies of your book while the publishing house makes millions.
What should you have done differently?
Copyright laws were invented to protect creative people against publishing monopolies.
In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
In case you wanted to know what was lost.
I did, thanks.
