[thedevilslawyer]

We're at a key milestone in the IP wars; IP was inducted into our civilization to protect the few who had the ability to create.

This idea is well past it's due date. We should move to a liberal IP regime, with copyright strictly reduced to 7-10 years, with all works then entering public domain. Our society will universally thrive with the abundance that will come.

I understand and empathize that a class of vocations today will go away, but so did lamplighters. The roles may become extinct; but we will endure as a people.

[ordinaryradical]

There are hundreds of years of art already in the public domain and society is not “universally thriving?” Why would adding a couple more recent years change that?

Seems very utopian magic thinking to me.

[thedevilslawyer]

The vast majority of the works have been created in the last 100 years. This is where the "intellect" of IP lies, and that's what's locked behind copyright. Opening these up would absolutely affect universally thriving.

You can't live modern life with knowledge as of 1900.

[rwyinuse]

I'm not sure people left without a job will endure, at least if they're unfortunate enough to live somewhere without social security. The key question is whether AI will somehow create enough new jobs for those let go (I doubt that), or just cause a massive unemployment.

[thedevilslawyer]

Indeed, I'm proposing that we figure out a solution for this. That would be better than bearing the cost of knowledge not being open and universal.

[HPMOR]

Why is it always taken as a conclusion that humans will persist? Lots of species go extinct, and it is not clear that won’t be true here as well.

[thedevilslawyer]

We won't go extinct because of the removal of an arbitrary law around monopolizing ideas.