Copyright

While listening to Jason Hardin talk about copyright I learned many interesting facts about copyright. The most interesting and controversial piece of information I learned was that copyright covers the author's life plus 70 years. This means that the copyrighted work doesn't enter the public domain for 70 years after the death of the person benefiting from the work. I also learned that the law used to only cover the author's life plus 50 years until the Disney corporation fought to have irt extended so that they could keep making money off of Walt Disney's work. Proponents of this law believe that relatives of the author should be able to benefit from the copyrighted works after the death of the author becauise it is just like any other property that can be inherited. I, however, believe that this amount of time is overdoing it. I think that once the author is dead the revenue from their creation should only serve to pay for the author's existing expenses and the work should then go into the public domain. The family did not create the work and should therefore not be able to benefit from someone elses work for 70 years after the death of the true creator.

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