Comment by marcodiego
3 years ago
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We have to agree to these kinds of terms about something that is more than half a century old and has zero commercial value. Something in the copyright system is deeply broken.
> We have to agree to these kinds of terms about something that is more than half a century old and has zero commercial value. Something in the copyright system is deeply broken.
I don't disagree.
The trouble is that, while almost everything 50 years old has almost no commercial value, a few things that old have tremendous commercial value.
My preferred solution is to have a very short automatic copyright period combined with a fee for registered works that increases exponentially based on the date of registration. Not that it really matters - I'm sure such a solution would never be enacted into law.
The current IBM zSeries is still backwards compatible with System/360 (and latter) models, so there could still be important APL\360 running in the wild.