It’s always been curios to me that the author or inventor or artist doesn’t own the rights to their work for all time. Why do these things expire?
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People don’t life forever, is an immediate reason. More than that, there is (or used to be) a general idea that all of society needs to be able to use new ideas and inventions in order to progress. If Gutenberg’s family still had exclusive rights to use printing presses, where would we be? IP is maybe a little different, but maybe not. Lots of IP isn’t just mickey mouse, it’s things like code, that are effectively digital machines. And even with characters or books, I personally don’t like to live in a world where every single piece of culture is privately owned by some conglomerate or another
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