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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a published author, I'm glad copyright existed. Without it, none of my publishers would have been in business and I would have had to find some other income source. But I think the default should be "public domain" rather than "copyright", and I'm skeptical of allowing corporations to own the copyright to individuals' works.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Do you think that those publishers would be significantly worse off if the copyright length was, say, 20-40 years rather than the 70 years used by most of the western world nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Well, most of my work was programming books, so honestly a 5 year copyright term would have been plenty. But the internet put most of those publishers out of business anyhow.

Outside of my own special case, I don't have really strong opinions on the term.