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<p>[QUOTE="Arnox, post: 12894, member: 1"]</p><p>But it's not really that simple, and there are some factors I feel you may be overlooking.</p><p></p><p>It says lifetime of the creator, but in the case of group creative efforts, who is the "creator"? The studio? The publisher that owns the studio? Let's say there is an independent studio but they sign over rights to a publisher. That means of course that the publisher now has control over the IP in complete perpetuity and the original creators can do nothing about it whatsoever. And what about works that also license one or more third-party IPs but the contracts expire? Or maybe there was a stupid dispute and the contracts got voided. Should that conglomerate IP have to drift into nothingness now pretty much forever?</p><p></p><p>Keep in mind, just because a work passes into public domain, it doesn't mean the author or even the rights holder can't work on it anymore. It doesn't mean that the original creators of the IP are no longer the original creators of the IP. They will always be, of course, and nothing can change that. But it does mean they now have to let others have a crack at it. They had a 20 year monopoly on that IP and if they can't generate something good in that timespan, then maybe it's time to let others have a shot at it then. Or maybe they DID generate something good, in which case, they had a 20 year monopoly on the profits and rights to that IP. Isn't that enough?</p><p></p><p>And in any case, patents last for 20 years only. Why are copyrights so much more special than patents?</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Arnox, post: 12894, member: 1"] But it's not really that simple, and there are some factors I feel you may be overlooking. It says lifetime of the creator, but in the case of group creative efforts, who is the "creator"? The studio? The publisher that owns the studio? Let's say there is an independent studio but they sign over rights to a publisher. That means of course that the publisher now has control over the IP in complete perpetuity and the original creators can do nothing about it whatsoever. And what about works that also license one or more third-party IPs but the contracts expire? Or maybe there was a stupid dispute and the contracts got voided. Should that conglomerate IP have to drift into nothingness now pretty much forever? Keep in mind, just because a work passes into public domain, it doesn't mean the author or even the rights holder can't work on it anymore. It doesn't mean that the original creators of the IP are no longer the original creators of the IP. They will always be, of course, and nothing can change that. But it does mean they now have to let others have a crack at it. They had a 20 year monopoly on that IP and if they can't generate something good in that timespan, then maybe it's time to let others have a shot at it then. Or maybe they DID generate something good, in which case, they had a 20 year monopoly on the profits and rights to that IP. Isn't that enough? And in any case, patents last for 20 years only. Why are copyrights so much more special than patents? [/QUOTE]
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