• Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Copyright protects already executed ideas, stripping that protection down to less than a decade would be completely unhelpful.

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      1 month ago

      Not quite. You can’t turn movies into books or games, or vice versa, for example. Sometimes such projects get stuck in limbo. Or think about how everyone hated the final season of Game of Thrones. Can’t do anything about that in our life times.