Reply #62: And *I* hope legislation is enacted which limits your copyright to [View All]

[Occulus]

thirty years.

You do NOT deserve lifetime profits for what you do today. Sorry. That's not how I want my world to work.

You should be unceremoniously forced- kicking, screaming, pleading, and crying, if need be- to release your works to the public domain after a reasonable time period, and that damn well ought to be within your lifetime and mine. otherwise, practically speaking, there is no application of the public domain to your work; therefore, in my lifetime, your works are immune to the public domain.

Unacceptable.

Let me say this as clearly as possible: I do NOT care that you make a "popular" work. I do care that you expect to make money off it for the rest of your life. You do not deserve to do so because none of us deserve to do so. You aren't that special.

Hubris, arrogance, and greed are the cores of the arguments supporting the current copyright regime. They are diametrically opposed to the very concept of the public domain, period. As such, they deserve to be stamped out of the equation like so many pestilential bugs, and severe and restrictive limits upon copyright life will do just that.

The public should be able to appropriate your works after a specified time period. That time period should be rigid and non-negotiable, reagrdless of the work's financial success. In other words, you had your chance, now get the HELL out of the way!!