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Mar 15 2018 04:15pm
I personally think if a copyright is out of use for more than 5 years it should enter the public domain, this flow of muse into the public domain will feed greater creativity and better art over time.
It would be like a new renaissance, look at how much greatness comes from the current tiny public domain already, pretty much everything that made disney famous before they started making original work and copyrighting all of it, robbin hood, king arthur, all the classics..
Imagine if that pool included all the lost copyrights that went to huge corporations just buying up defunct smaller ones then sitting on it forever..
Most of the games i played as a kid no longer exist and will never be seen again because they are abandoned because the current owner probably has never heard of the content and may even be unaware they own it.
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Mar 15 2018 04:38pm
Lifetime plus 1 year is fair IMO.
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Mar 15 2018 04:44pm
Quote (thundercock @ Mar 16 2018 09:38am)
Lifetime plus 1 year is fair IMO.


Then you get examples like the wright brothers holding the entire world back out of greed for an idea that was certain to come from some one else relatively fast, and they could hold it back for decades.
I also support fair use if your patent is an important working component in some one else's design, they should have to pay you for the usage, but you should not be able to hold back progress out of spite.
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Mar 15 2018 04:47pm
can't think of an exact number as i'm not educated enough in this field but I could see benefit from greatly reducing copyright limitations
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Mar 15 2018 04:52pm
Quote (majorblood @ Mar 16 2018 09:47am)
can't think of an exact number as i'm not educated enough in this field but I could see benefit from greatly reducing copyright limitations


I just think we let too much great possibilities sit on the shelf and too much content is owned by people who make no use of it.
Back in the day the public domain was a thriving industry supporting a huge pool of artists, these days it is pretty much exactly the same content because almost anything made in the last 5 decades is owned by some one.
If blizzard wants to hold the rights to diablo and they can show that they are actively working on diablo then sure they can keep the rights.
If they get bought out by EA and ea sits on the copyright for 8 years without even looking like they are thinking about using the ip it should enter the public domain where it will be able to be put to use.
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Mar 15 2018 04:56pm
Quote (Plaguefear @ Mar 15 2018 05:52pm)
I just think we let too much great possibilities sit on the shelf and too much content is owned by people who make no use of it.
Back in the day the public domain was a thriving industry supporting a huge pool of artists, these days it is pretty much exactly the same content because almost anything made in the last 5 decades is owned by some one.
If blizzard wants to hold the rights to diablo and they can show that they are actively working on diablo then sure they can keep the rights.
If they get bought out by EA and ea sits on the copyright for 8 years without even looking like they are thinking about using the ip it should enter the public domain where it will be able to be put to use.


I play on a private Everquest server that exists with the good graces of the owners of the IP. Pretty rare.

This post was edited by Skinned on Mar 15 2018 04:57pm
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I play on a private Everquest server that exists with the good graces of the owners of the IP. Pretty rare.


That is awesome, blizzard went out of their way to make sure it was impossible with d3 :(
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Mar 15 2018 05:12pm
Quote (Skinned @ Mar 15 2018 02:56pm)
I play on a private Everquest server that exists with the good graces of the owners of the IP. Pretty rare.


Reported for breaking Rule 11 / illegal / piracy discussion.

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Mar 15 2018 05:13pm
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Quote (JohnMiller92 @ Mar 16 2018 10:12am)
Reported for breaking Rule 11 / illegal / piracy discussion.

If the owners allow it then it isn't piracy genius.
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Mar 15 2018 05:19pm
Quote (JohnMiller92 @ Mar 15 2018 06:12pm)
Reported for breaking Rule 11 / illegal / piracy discussion.


You actually reported that post? It was relevant to the topic, didn't name or promote the server, and it is legally allowed to exist by the owner of the IP so it isn't piracy.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

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