RE: [microsound] ideal copyright

[Ryan Whitehead <ryan.whitehead@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

5 years doesn't do much good for ventures that are extremely capital
intensive, such as drug development. Add in years of testing and waiting
for clearance by the FDA and it's into the public domain before anyone's
seen a penny. 

On the arts side, I'd be interested to see a breakdown of when money is
earned. For an immense hit, it's probably front-loaded even if it is a
steady earner for years to come. For slightly left of mainstream
artists, the distribution might be more even, though never the huge
spike where fortunes are made. But there's the interesting case of
artists/songs that experience a huge break late in there careers or
after there careers are over. Nick Drake's Volkswagen song seems a good
example. 

Anyway, I think shortening to 5 years would have some unfortunate
repercussions. For example, why would anybody pay the price to use a
recent tune when virtually every hit song of the past 50 years is free
to pillage?  

Out_

Rien

-----Original Message-----
From: john saylor [mailto:js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 9:32 PM
To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [microsound] ideal copyright

hi

we all have our ideas about intellectual property, creative commons,
fair use and so on. here's a question:

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!

i'm sure not everyone agrees with me.

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