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The best chance to change when things enter public domain sooner in our lifetime will happen within the next year.

There is a rare chance in America, where people who rose to power outside the traditional political career are at or near the top of the US Government.  These are people that Hollywood doesn’t like, and don’t have a reason to support one-sided laws that mostly help movie studios over the regular citizen.

While copyright law in the USA was originally 14 years with a chance to renew for another 14, that’s no longer the case.  Right now in America, the copyright term is lifetime of the creator(s) plus 70 years, or 95 years after date of creation.  Many people believe that this is too long for a company or person to have a monopoly on a story, or character.

The solution: Limit copyright duration to 50 years OR life of the artist/creator(s), whichever is longer, and if something is made by corporate committee, 50 years from date of creation.

Note: This would not change patent or trademark.

This would allow millions of Americans free access to tens of thousands of characters, stories, song, and greatly simplify the copyright system.  It’ll allow start-up writers to play around with famous works, and become more well known, before creating original works of their own. Giving original works a greater chance of success.

The reason for the 50-year limit is simple.  If someone cannot make enough profit with a half-century monopoly, either they’re too incompetent with it, that they don’t deserve the monopoly, or they’ll never make enough money to be satisfied with the creation, even after five decades of holding the monopoly.  To top this off, with the limit, the corporation could still use the story/character after 50 years, but would have to compete with others to ensure that their version is better.

This gives audiences who don’t like where a series has gone a chance to put their own version out, or produce a cheaper version of it, or a higher quality version, creating a true marketplace of ideas.

Why does copyright law stand the greatest chance of shortening in 2024?  Two words:

Elon Musk.

Being the richest man in the world, and one of the most powerful people in America, Mr. Musk has become one of the co-heads of the newly created D.O.G.E. organization, giving him the power to make big suggestions.  And it’s within his power to suggest that Copyright length be limited to 50 years, and have the President and congress move to make it a reality.

Why would be do this?  Elon Musk is having issues with Disney.   If Elon Musk was looking to buy Disney, (or simply troll them,) then having many of their pre-1970 characters fall into public domain could make their purchase price drop by billions of dollars.  Limiting Disney’s influence in the culture, which again, Musk is reportedly less than thrilled by.

Whereas Disney was in the position in the late 90’s to extend copyright protection, Musk is currently in the position to start the ball rolling to limit it.

If Musk figures out this option, this would be an easy win for Trump White House administration, as it allows for more affordable products on the market, and opens opportunities for smaller studios outside of Hollywood (like the Flyover states) to create their versions of famous movies or characters.

As for international treaties, the previous administration took many of them less seriously than the Democrats, and many countries in Europe are waiting for America to lower its copyright law so that they can follow their lead.   It’d also allow Trump to go down in history again as the first democratic country to lower the copyright protection term.

Because of these reasons, the greatest chance for copyright in the United States to be shortened will be in the next year.

We need to put a nail in the coffin of Chat Control in the EU.

Chat control, as it is called, is part of CSAM. It is a regulatory effort to combat child sexual abuse. The part that includes preemptive check of all communications is undemocratic, totalitarian and plain crazy.

They (EU members) believe that it is possible to check all images and links before sending, for content that falls into the CSAM category, and flag it for check by an EU authority. They even have technical specifications for the algorithm.

Computer Scientists and others have warned them that this will not work, on top of it being a privacy rights nightmare.

However, conservatives believe this is feasible. It has support from the likes of Orban, who is trying to pass it before his 6 month EU presidency lapses and who is an aspiring dictator. The Greek government (where I am from) also supports this. Not surprising, since the ruling party has a history with listening in to private communications and there was even a recent scandal involving the central intelligence agency (yeap.. we also call it CIA) listening into the communications of ministers, reporters, MEP and others.

Vassilis Perantzakis
President of the governing board of the Pirate Party of Greece

Hello,

I'm considering liquid democracy as a means through which my union could vote on topics, and collect feedback from its members. As such, I would like to know to how it's worked out for Pirate parties in the world that have used such a system for these purposes.

Thank you,

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