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Courts are coming for digital libraries (reason.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Copyright protects already executed ideas, stripping that protection down to less than a decade would be completely unhelpful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Not quite. You can't turn movies into books or games, or vice versa, for example. Sometimes such projects get stuck in limbo. Or think about how everyone hated the final season of Game of Thrones. Can't do anything about that in our life times.