[matheusmoreira]

Yeah. He'll sell his records, make his money. After a while he'll have to create more if he wants to earn more.

It totally won't enable over a hundred years of rent seeking for him, descendants who could inherit his property after he's dead and of course the monopolistic copyright giants.

[LeifCarrotson]

That's obviously facile. He's dead, and unable to make decisions anymore.

I, on the other hand, am alive and would definitely have decided to become a world-renowned operatic singer, if only copyright wasn't so short that I couldn't pass on the rights to my artistic creations to my children's children's children's children's children's children's children. I could pass it on to my children's children's children's children's children's children, but I worry about their kids. Copyright isn't sufficiently long enough for that so I decided to produce no art at all instead, and become an engineer to produce trade secrets that can last indefinitely.

We definitely need an extension to copyright to incentivize long-term planners like me to create more art.

/s

[tankenmate]

I think the OP's post was made in the form of "100% de-hydrated desert dessicated sarcasm".

[Chris2048]

> trade secrets that can last indefinitely

and can also be invalidated immediately. AFAIK trade secret gets no formal protection outside secrecy.