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There's also the times where corporations issue claims over copyright they don't actually own. You could be singing your own original song in a Youtube video, and still have to worry about it getting copyright claimed; either because Youtube's Content ID system made a false match, or because an...

Anyone else notice how illiterate many people are regarding copyright, and how they seem to have forgotten that the public domain is a thing that exists? They just assume that everything is owned by some major corporation; even things centuries old. Don't even get me started on how they keep...

Uniquenameosaurus posted some more videos talking about the abuse of copyright, as well as alternatives to our current system; thought they were interesting enough to share. Personally I'm convinced; but whatever your opinions are on the guy and his argument, you've got to at least respect...

Comics don't work like that, as far as I'm aware; not most superhero comics, at least. Nobody who worked on House of M, Infinity Gauntlet, or Days of Future Past receive any royalties; their work is entirely owned by Marvel. This is actually the reason many artists left Marvel to create Image...

I will never understand people who argue that children should be able to continue to profit off of the creations of their parents. No profession outside of the artistic sphere has such an expectation; a carpenter, for example, just either saves their money in preparation for when they're gone...

If it was meant to be "commie shit" I'd have argued that you have no rights to your own ideas at all. Thing is, every idea is built off of someone else's; usually multiple someones. Your book about elves will eventually become public property; we're only arguing over when that should be. So...

I don't agree, for reasons I previously laid out. Also most copyrights are owned by corporations, not the people who actually created the thing copyrighted.

I'd argue death of the author is far too long. The exact number would probably be a matter for negotiation, as I'm sure everyone has a different idea on what would be fair, but personally my position is somewhere between twenty, to thirty years. That aside though, to my mind there is no...

I found this to be an interesting take on the comparison between private property, and IP:

But that's a problem for most authors; whether copyright is twenty years long, or a hundred. Most won't achieve notoriety, no matter how much time and effort they put into it. And I'm sorry, but if you're still relying on the profits made off of a book you wrote over twenty years ago, what...

Here's a question though; if copyright length was drastically shortened (say, twenty years), what exactly is stopping the person who created a copyrighted work, from continuing to profit off of it, once it enters the public domain? Let's say they wrote a book; just sign the blasted thing, give...

As I understand it, one thing that could be done to improve the situation is increase funding for assigned counsel; I've heard horror stories about how some public defenders are so swamped with cases, they have only a few minutes they can dedicate towards each.

Good to know; but still, most people aren't aware of that. Even if they are; often they just cannot afford the time investment to defend themselves.

You don't really understand the costs associate with legal battles; corporations can afford to pay those costs easily, but the average citizen? Going to court has ruined lives, even if they end up the victor in the end; and the corporations know this, and use it as a threat to get people to...

Copyright law needs to be fixed, but abolishing it entirely is nothing more than throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I'd argue one of the things that should be done to fix it is to drastically shorten its duration (twenty, thirty years tops), and perhaps make it non-transferable. There...