alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Gaming@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 day agoJust in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation programwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down10
arrow-up1186arrow-down1external-linkJust in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation programwww.pcgamer.comalyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Gaming@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareDave@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·22 hours agoSo you post a selfie on Lemmy and the next thing you know, you’re the key subject in a new Facebook ad? I think we need some level of IP laws, but current copyright periods are way too long.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-221 hours agohttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436186 Rufus Pollock’s math agrees. I am so bummed he recently took this down from his personal website where it had been available for 15 years Now it just resolves as a 404 not found: https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf
minus-squareDave@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·21 hours agoAh that’s cool, 15 year copyright sounds good to me.
So you post a selfie on Lemmy and the next thing you know, you’re the key subject in a new Facebook ad?
I think we need some level of IP laws, but current copyright periods are way too long.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436186
Rufus Pollock’s math agrees. I am so bummed he recently took this down from his personal website where it had been available for 15 years
Now it just resolves as a 404 not found:
https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf
Ah that’s cool, 15 year copyright sounds good to me.