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by 0xDEAFBEAD 974 days ago
Disney keeps lobbying for copyright extension. How about we create a system where you lose your copyright after 15 years say, but you can pay the government an annual fee to extend the copyright of a specific work indefinitely? That way Disney is no longer incentivized to extend the copyright for works that no one cares about, and it also unlocks a new stream of tax revenue for the government. Everyone wins.