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by scrollaway
3814 days ago
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Seriously, at this point why can't Disney buy themselves copyright extensions instead of all this legalized bribery? It'd probably be cheaper for them and honestly, if they are profiting from walt disney works, then it's fair they want to protect their income. It's not fair they are changing the collective rights on humanity's works for the past century damn it... |
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By default any work is protected by copyright for 30 years.
After this point the copyright can be renewed for 10 year periods, with the cost increasing each time. Maybe the first extension costs $100, the second $10,000 the third $10,000,000 and so on. Put a cap at 7 extensions for a total of 100 years. Inflation makes all of this tricky, but if its all based off of a base price which is pegged to inflation and then the extensions are multiples of that it would work fine.
I'd argue that a longer monopoly on a work is more burdensome on society so it makes sense that it would cost more. Maybe they can reinvest the fees into the patent office or something.