Comment Re:Here's an idea (Score 1) 54
IMO probably the best thing to happen with this industry is for copyright laws to be clipped back to 28 years. The artists will lose their shit, but honestly, the Berne convention just feels like it's designed for the sole purpose of allowing them (and the studios) to just keep rent seeking indefinitely.
I have an even more radical proposal. Roll back copyright duration to 28 years, but only for works for hire.
- Works of corporate authorship (movies, etc.): 14 +14 (renewal required).
- Works of individual authorship: 50 years or the life of the author, whichever is longer.
This strikes a balance that acknowledges individuals' lower ability to earn money off of a work, and ensures that individuals are able to continue benefitting from their works for the rest of their lives, while still ensuring that musical works written when my long-deceased grandparents were children are no longer locked away where no one can perform them without expensive licensing and ensuring that people who never contributed anything towards the works' creation (e.g. the grandchildren of a composer, author, or artist) don't get to live off of other people's work for the rest of their lives.