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[–] Billygoat@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I think no matter which way you went smaller creators would get ground under heel but 10 years would be way too short. I don’t think the people downvoting you really thought about this. The Way of Kings was published in 2010. Brandon Sanderson would’ve lost the copyright in 2020. I can guarantee that some corporation would rather wait and not have to pay him to create a movie immediately as the copyright expired. I’m sure there are tons of other scenarios that I’m not thinking of but larger organizations will always be able to work the system better than smaller creators.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Copyright in the US used to be 17 years + an additional 17 years if the holder applied fpr an extension.

34 years to commercialize a franchise is plenty

[–] Billygoat@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

And I think that would be better, 10 would be too short.