Copyright: Forever Less One Day

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[200131240]

What the heck is a laser disk?

[CrimsonRGU]

what really sucks is that you cant use copyright music to make a montage without having it taken down

i mean what happened to freedom of expression in that sense!?

[TheTraumarama2]

Shouldn't Britain be trying to sue us for stealing their original copyright law?

[ztoical]

Bit of a vague coverage of copyright law as you haven't touched on fair use of copyrighted work or made it clear that you can't copyright an idea - the text of Harry Potter is copyright including the character names and locations but nothing stopping someone creating their own story from the idea of an orphaned boy wizard. And while I agree it's not nice to see a mindless company gain from copyright many creatives do think about death and want to leave something for their children to gain from

[dtwpurple13]

look at the bottom right of the middle window at 0:20 lol

[ShadowSlayer090]

1:53-1:55

best two seconds ever.



[HunterFDavis]

@Recon0003 Don't quote me, but I believe they are the same or longer in the UK.

[Recon0003]

Your right, loads of good Disney films werent created by Disney, and yet they want no-one to copy there work for hundreds of years?. what hypocrits.

Is it the same in the UK or is this just US copyright law?, I hope so.

[Redenzek]

The Star Wars bit actually made me jump. XD

[labobo]

@TheCraich Answer: You will have to get back to using your own head and creativity.

Oh the horror ! ;)

In the beginning there were no ideas to steal, only those with a good brain created stuff

Now days any moron can steal an idea, modify it a tiny bit and call it theirs and make profit from it without giving any credits to the original idea maker

NOW THAT IS MESSED UP, IMMORAL AND PLAIN WRONG !

[labobo]

Indeed, its tricky to figure out a sweat-spot that will benefit the original author and the society equally.

Instead of blocking the rewrites, additions, etc you could rewrite the copyright law saying all work based on the author's original work should give a portion of their profit to the original author for x number of years (authors life time perhaps ? )

Or a mix : 5 years block and then the above.

That seems better to me and everyone wins ( authors and fans )

What do you think ?