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Originally Posted by fmltube
I have to side with Gideon on this one. Copyright was never designed to provide an artist/studio with a perpetual license. The only reason copyright laws are as bad as they are now is because the studios/labels lobbied Congress to ensure they can still make money long after the original artist has passed on. Should an artist be able to pass along its royalties after their death? No because my copyright holders are the studios and labels to begin with.
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Not always true. If I write a book, I am the copyright holder. A book publisher might hold the rights to publish the book but that is a different contract. Sure, there are cases where someone writes something and a studio/record label or company owns it, but in many cases that is not true.
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Think for a moment. If an artist was not able to make enough money off of their work created 50 years ago, what is the sense of still granting a copyright? Look at modern day films and the god awful number of remakes and this is the reason copyright is bad. If copyright was enforced like our founding fathers intended, many of the movie studios would actually create more art instead of throwing shit together and trying to cash in.
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Copyright has very little to do with the garbage that is coming out of hollywood. They do remakes because they think they have a built in audience. They feel that if it was a hit TV show then it will be a hit movie. They also think if it was once a hit movie, it will be a hit movie again. Sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong.
So if every book written or movie made had a copyright that expired in 14 years, how does this cause them to create better movies?
The reality is movies cost more today then every before. They demand a huge opening so they can cash in as fast as they can before the movies end up all over the internet. So if they are going to invest that kind of money they want something they can count on as a sure thing. There are a lot of very good movies made every year, just many of them don't make much money so the don't get a lot of recognition. The amount of shit coming out of hollywood has everything to do with bad choices by executives and very little to do with copyright length.
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It would make sense why the adult industry would argue against a lower number of copyright protection. In 14 years under the founding fathers vision, there would be no reason for the purchase of new porn because with the amount of porn out there now, you could watch porn every second for the remainder of your life and still not be able to watch everything ever produced.
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Just because it would lack a copyright doesn't mean you could still get it free. You would have to have someone willing to distribute it for free and the will want some kind of return on their time and money investment into doing so. We are seeing this with tube sites now. There are so many movies out there that you can license a tube site could put up 15 full length DVDs every day of the year and still never run out.
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The same people arguing for perpetual license will be the same ones that will bitch when the recording industry manages to charge for every time you listen to a song or every time you watch a video.
The sadder fact is all the fucking hypocrisy on this forum about tube sites and piracy when many of the videos linked here are in fact copyright infringement in itself. Or after the latest UFC someone asks for a link to watch/download it. Or like the BBC documentary link that was posted here a couple months ago for the American folks to watch it because it only aired in the UK on BBC. It just seems funny that copyrights only matter to individuals when its an infringement that hurts them.
Fact is 99% of those on this board bitching about piracy have downloaded something illegally before be it a song or a movie. Fuck, some even jerk off on the tubes to pirated material and you are just as guilty of infringement for viewing something you do not have a granted license to consume.
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I have noticed this too. It seems like sometimes people think one thing is bad and another is okay.