@SpaceScotsman@startrek.website
Post #2093616
2026-04-22 15:33 UTC
This is one of the points that a French MEP brought up during the meeting. If this is pursued it could as a side effect open up space for digital "orphaned works" which would be fantastic.
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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 16:05
It's not even an issue of "orphaned works." *Every* work becomes Public Domain eventually; that's the point of it. In fact (according to originalist American sensibilities, at least) the *entire point* of copyright law is "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts" (i.e., to enrich the Public Domain) to begin with! Allowing works to be copyrighted (essentially, borrowed back from the Public Domain temporarily so the creator can profit, thus incentivizing the creation of works) is merely a means to that end, not some sort of moral entitlement.