Comment by throw10920
1 month ago
I would love to see a public poll on how long people think that copyright should be. I'm betting that the majority of the answers from normal people will be less than the current "author's lifetime plus 70 years" but also greater than 5 years. This is probably not a very profitable poll for Gallup to do, though...
My answer is "a generation". There's so many ideas and behaviors that don't persist between generations that it seems as natural of a division as you could have.
The median age of new mothers is 27 around here, which seems about right.
A generation is usually considered to be ~20 years, which is less than 14+14, not that I'm complaining.
Wasn't it 14+14 at some point? I wonder if that would be above or below the average response
"What I need should be copyrighted zero years and what I sell should be copyrighter indefinitely", this is an answer you will get.