My personal opinion is that copyright should be strong in a manner inversely proportional to the size of the entity that controls that copyright. There should also be an extensive amount of work put into patching circumventions of this law.
If I personally make a little cartoon cat guy and make it big but I’m still just like one person making animations by hand I should be able to keep copyright on my creation pretty much until I die.
If I’m a multi-million dollar corporation the copyright protection should fall off dramatically. Corporations can still make a big profit on things they just can’t be the sole proprietor forever.
I’m not sure what exact figures would be fair but you get the principal, smaller entity longer protection. Basically the opposite of whatever the fuck Disney is doing to the law.
My only issue is what if you start as a single artist but it gets so popular you become a corporation?
Like if your little cat guy gets popular enough you make a bunch of merch, maybe a video game, get offered funding to make a TV show… When does it switch? I could totally see this abused like “yeah we want a cat-guy show on Netflix! Here’s 100k to make it… Aw shame you are now above the personal limit so your copyright no longer exists so we will make it ourselves and you get no money!”
As I outlined previously I think this would involve somebody or a lot of somebody’s a lot smarter than me writing very elaborate law to fill in all the edge cases but yes.
I see the intent but can also imagine so much abuse… “yeah I own the copyright privately, yeah megacorp finances me, and yeah I technically own and control megacorp but the copy right is privately owned… Why are you asking all these questions?”
My personal opinion is that copyright should be strong in a manner inversely proportional to the size of the entity that controls that copyright. There should also be an extensive amount of work put into patching circumventions of this law.
If I personally make a little cartoon cat guy and make it big but I’m still just like one person making animations by hand I should be able to keep copyright on my creation pretty much until I die.
If I’m a multi-million dollar corporation the copyright protection should fall off dramatically. Corporations can still make a big profit on things they just can’t be the sole proprietor forever.
I’m not sure what exact figures would be fair but you get the principal, smaller entity longer protection. Basically the opposite of whatever the fuck Disney is doing to the law.
Disney creates 100 mill small copyright holding companies. You lose.
My only issue is what if you start as a single artist but it gets so popular you become a corporation?
Like if your little cat guy gets popular enough you make a bunch of merch, maybe a video game, get offered funding to make a TV show… When does it switch? I could totally see this abused like “yeah we want a cat-guy show on Netflix! Here’s 100k to make it… Aw shame you are now above the personal limit so your copyright no longer exists so we will make it ourselves and you get no money!”
As I outlined previously I think this would involve somebody or a lot of somebody’s a lot smarter than me writing very elaborate law to fill in all the edge cases but yes.
I see the intent but can also imagine so much abuse… “yeah I own the copyright privately, yeah megacorp finances me, and yeah I technically own and control megacorp but the copy right is privately owned… Why are you asking all these questions?”