Re: SV: Knight and Public Domain

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

David Krentz writes:
 > I'd be lucky to have something that earns money for 10 weeks
 > regardless of 10 years.

Then what difference would it even make to you if copyright expired
after 10 years?  Seriously -- if you're not going to make any more
money out of it after then, isn't it better to have it out there
circulating and increasing people's recognition of you?

 > Hell, its a battle to own the very artwork you created out of a
 > lifetime of learning.  I own almost NOTHING of what I've produced
 > and rarely will anyone ever see it....

That's the other problem: only one time in ten do the actual artists
profit from the copyright of the work they made; the other nine times,
it's publishers.

(And don't even get me started on publishers requiring academic
authors to sign over their copyright as a condition of publishing.)

 > Why do we work if its not for the betterment of our family's.

For the betterment of the whole world?

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