• realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    I think it’s simple, just make copyright non-transferable. Someone can sign a contract to distribute your works but can never own the rights to them. You can’t pass them to anyone when you die, they go to the public domain.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
      2·
      5 hours ago

      The problem with that is the rash of deaths of people with copyright over desirable content.

      And this isn’t just speculative.

      • mrmaplebar@fedia.ioOP
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Exactly. This is why you can’t tie property ownership to life and death, because then you’re simply creating a business incentive to seeing that people with valuable property die.

        So to solve that, instead of tying the property to a specific person’s lifetime, you tie it to a generic estimation of human lifetime (say 80-110 years, optimistically), and that brings us right back to where we are.