Re: [microsound] ideal copyright

[Kassen <kassen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: john saylor <

> if you could write the copyright legislation, what would it say?
>
> i'd say 5 years and then into the public domain. if it's about artists
> instead of corporate assets, that's about as far as it goes. they need
> to keep producing!
>

Wouldn't that encourage "short term works"? For trance hits there wouldn't
be much difference but for masterpieces, far ahead of their time it would be
much harder for the creator to bennefit from his or her work. As a culture I
would rather encourage "timeless masterpieces" than hits. I see your
reasoning but I think most artists are already forced to keep producing if
they can even live from their work alone....

Perhaps some system where the whole work remains under the artist's controll
untill his or her death while sampling would be allowed a few years after
it's creation?

It just occured to me that any system where the point of release to the
public domain depends on the artist's death (including the current one)
would encourage a company that would buy the rights to the work to keep the
artist alive. I can imagine food packets, I can also imagine decidedly
unpleasant cyberpunk senarios.

It's all far more complicated than it looks at first sight.

Kas.



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