I’ll settle for a wholesale rewrite of copyright law, where copyright lasts less than 20 years, can only ever be held by natural people i.e. the human beings that did the creating, not employers, companies or other entities that just use copyright to profit without credit or reward to the creators, and where copyright can only be transferred once (e.g. inheritance)
imagine a videogame with copyright held by all the staff, not the company. It would not be possible for the company to abuse for profit for 100 years.
The role of copyright would become valuable only to solo people or small creative groups. Not enormous undertakings like movies or videogames. It would still be possible to copyright a script in the name of the writers but not exclusively with the backers, investora or employers that make no creative contribution.
That’s what I’m hoping will lead to not only their downfall, but dissolution should we manage to get a progressive enough government in place.
I’ll settle for a wholesale rewrite of copyright law, where copyright lasts less than 20 years, can only ever be held by natural people i.e. the human beings that did the creating, not employers, companies or other entities that just use copyright to profit without credit or reward to the creators, and where copyright can only be transferred once (e.g. inheritance)
imagine a videogame with copyright held by all the staff, not the company. It would not be possible for the company to abuse for profit for 100 years.
The role of copyright would become valuable only to solo people or small creative groups. Not enormous undertakings like movies or videogames. It would still be possible to copyright a script in the name of the writers but not exclusively with the backers, investora or employers that make no creative contribution.
A person can dream anyway…