• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 days ago

    https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf

    June 15, 2009

    Using existing data on recordings and books we obtain a point estimate of around 15 years for optimal copyright term with a 99% confidence interval extending up to 38 years

    Some of us have been waiting for copyright laws to be amended downward for 16 years now.

    I’m not promoting that corporations should get a free pass, I just want them to be held to the same standards they held the Pirate Bay to if we’re gonna pretend that current copyright laws are good, since the centerpiece of the court case against the Pirate Bay was that they were making money from what they did. OpenAI is making shitloads of money from what they did.

    But I’m all for shortening copyright, but not getting rid of it. Reforms don’t have to be pro-corporate slop.