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Personally I think 25 years. What do you think?

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The life of the creator or shorter. And I mean the individual human who created it; not the company they may have made it for as an employee.

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem with tying it to life without adding additional time is that there's a, uh, hack for instantly ending somebody's copyright.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Unethical (un)life hacks

[–] missingno@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How does this work for anything made by more than one person, especially projects by a very large team?

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Its valid until one of the people pass away.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago

First one to say the idea out loud gets the rights. 😤

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone -1 points 2 days ago

Also every job I've ever worked had a clause in the contract like "anything you make on company time is our intellectual property", which makes sense

I thought that too, but without a minimum duration clause regardless of the death of the author, nobody would publish the works of a, say, 90 years old artist, even if their work totally deserves it.