Michael George III says:
The current state of copyright law in the USA makes me very angry. As pointed out in the videos and reading, copyright law is specifically mentioned in the Constitution. However, Copyright was meant to provide the owner a ‘limited monopoly’ so that they could benefit financially from their creation. However, Copyright law now extends to 100 years for corporations or the authors life + 70 years. This makes absolutely no sense.
The reason our forefathers created a system where copyright expired was to encourage authors to make the next cultural contribution. This is the key. As a copyright holder, in exchange for benefiting our culture you receive a limited monopoly on your work as payback. However, in our current system, you can pass your copyrights onto your grandchildren and they can generate license fees. Are we creating a class of ‘idle rich’ that produce nothing? Limiting copyright length would also benefit the remix culture because copyright would actually expire on older works and they would be freely usable.
At the rate we are going, Copyright can soon be renamed to forever-right since congress continues to extend its length.
Reply to Michael George
The idea of cultural contributions seem to be something you can inherit according to these laws. Perhaps creators should be able to create their own rules/laws for their own work. This might encourage the other wise not producing benefiters to use continue great work or use it as springboards.
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