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Albion on 12 May 2011
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HappySqurriel said:
Kenny said:

I've known that copyight in the United States started at 14 years, but what that meant didn't really hit home for me until I realized that a system like this would mean Goldeneye 64 would enter the public domain in a few months' time.  Not only that, but every single game on the NES and SNES would also be in the public domain by now.  Unfortunately, reality dictates that cartoons from the 20s are still copyrighted, and will be for all time as long as Walt Disney successfully lobbies the government into extending the length of copyright every time Mickey Mouse comes close to entering the public domain.

But is 14 (or 25) years really unreasonable?

A company (like Disney or Nintendo) should be able to protect people from creating new works based on their IP with Trademarks, but after enough time has passed why is it wrong to let people have free access to this already created material? The company and its creators have turned massive profits already, and there is no legitimate argument that copying this material would cause any harm to the company (or the people who created the content).

Games kind of re-created the interactive Read-Write Culture that was lost by the invention of radio.  I think like the guy was saying in the video, Trademark like land owners should use common sense, and only exercise there rights under law of copy write where  very harmfully trespassing  is happening.

Having a agreement of just how much content is open for open domain and letting people know could be at least a step forward.  Some of this modern culture is helpful to the original creator, It spreads the idea that the original creator is a Icon for a new group of people.

Cosplay comes up to mind right about now.   

But the Idea that they make software to stop everyone from copying and Plugging content on the internet, feels absolutely  stupid.

Its basically taking a Read-Write Environment of the internet and restricting it of the Write part.  So basically bringing us back to the TV brainwashing stage, of Read only.

OOOH now im pissed lol