Imagine you create a product that is mechanically functional but fundamentally terrible. Only a tiny group is willing to pay for it, and even that isn’t enough to break even. You have no choice but to pull it from the market and discard it. Then the government steps in and starts distributing that product for free. This is your personal intellectual property, you no longer control it or own it.
Your comment is deeply frustrating. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of copyright and intellectual property, which is frankly astounding.
• The term endures for the life of the author plus 70 years.
• For works made for hire or anonymous/ pseudonymous works, the term is 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first.
Dude. I noticed that there is a collective misunderstanding of copyright and intellectual property on Lemmy y’all need to read some wikis or something.
I’ve noticed here on Lemmy that the general user base just doesn’t like copyright laws or have a complete lack of knowledge of what a copyright is how they function and why it’s beneficial to copyright works.
It’s actually really frustrating mainly because you get downvoted for supporting copyright which is insane.
Imagine you create a product that is mechanically functional but fundamentally terrible. Only a tiny group is willing to pay for it, and even that isn’t enough to break even. You have no choice but to pull it from the market and discard it. Then the government steps in and starts distributing that product for free. This is your personal intellectual property, you no longer control it or own it.
Your comment is deeply frustrating. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of copyright and intellectual property, which is frankly astounding.
“Imagine you create something that ends up being terrible, you can’t profit off it, and then people can get it for free!”
I don’t understand what the problem is here.
In the US our Constitution only grants you a monopoly on your creation for a limited time before it ends up in the public domain.
• The term endures for the life of the author plus 70 years.
• For works made for hire or anonymous/ pseudonymous works, the term is 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first.
Dude. I noticed that there is a collective misunderstanding of copyright and intellectual property on Lemmy y’all need to read some wikis or something.
The constitution grants Congress the right to create public domain laws, and that’s it. With current law it’s decades away from applying to this game.
I’ve noticed here on Lemmy that the general user base just doesn’t like copyright laws or have a complete lack of knowledge of what a copyright is how they function and why it’s beneficial to copyright works.
It’s actually really frustrating mainly because you get downvoted for supporting copyright which is insane.