Pretty much, yes. I didn't care enough about that above post to copyright it. If I did I wouldn't post it at all.
Thats my issue. I see it as the public domain shrinking immensively. Things posted without vetting attached will 99% not be anything worth stealing and 1% spammed as badly as a meme if it's semi-interesting. And Disney can still lobby congress under this model to expand copyright.
What really improves here? It doesn't even benefit open source development.
With affirmative registration we can trivially prove/disprove whether a specific work is registered under copyright. It also greatly expands the works in the public domain.
> It doesn't even benefit open source development.
Sure it does. Code by default is usable by anyone. A registry of copywritten code would appear which we could easily cross-reference.
I already asserted that this would not expand the public domain. People just won't publicly post as readily as they do now. You have a very charitable interpretation that assumes we would get the exact same code output we do now despite a radical change in how ownership works.
>Code by default is usable by anyone.
"by default". Any serious entrepreneur wouldn't fall on the default to begin with if the potential losses are that large.
> registry of copywritten code would appear which we could easily cross-reference.
Sounds like a good recipe for more Oracle vs Google battles in my eyes. We just have a reference on what NOT to write. Now there will be discretion on if you just happened to write this kind of code or if you took X+1 lines of a code base when X is allowed. Very useless metrics for a productive piece of software, but the kind thst will absolutely be used by courts.
Do you realize to bring a copyright action you have to register the work? Your theory is not going to change anything, because it's based on false premises.
No, that's not correct. Registering helps in establishing ownership but it is NOT necessary to bring a suit.
Even more importantly, the vast majority of copyright claims aren't litigated in a court at all. Most are handled by extrajudicial processes such as the DMCA takedown process. You do not have to register to issue a DMCA takedown.
Furthermore, right now people just register before bringing their suit because they have 5 years to do so. The proposal above is a lot different than what you're suggesting and the law doesn't work as you're describing.
It means your post, above, isn't automatically copyrighted, and the public domain expands massively.
I don't even want a copyright on this post, but I've got one.
Thats my issue. I see it as the public domain shrinking immensively. Things posted without vetting attached will 99% not be anything worth stealing and 1% spammed as badly as a meme if it's semi-interesting. And Disney can still lobby congress under this model to expand copyright.
What really improves here? It doesn't even benefit open source development.