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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">As rms mentions at the end of his article, almost a year ago someone<br>
(namely myself) proposed to refine PPI proposal of reducing the<br>
copyright duration, for instance by adapting said duration to the<br>
licensing model chosen by the author/artist/developer. (I am referring<br>
to Jan 8 to Jan 12 discussion on this mailing list.)<br>
This suggestion seemed to met (some of) rms' expectations and has<br>
become the official stance of PPfr ever since, though PPse has not<br>
acknowledged it AFAIK. This idea doesn't seem incompatible with yours,<br>
btw.<br></blockquote><div><br>Varable length copyright is not something I will ever agree with. I do not care if it's based on media type, the nature of the content or it's perceived usefulness, copyright held by a person vs. copyright held by a corporation, or the licence used. I very strongly believe that all copyright should expire a uniform number of years after the creation of a work. This would make it so much easier to be sure that a work is no longer in copyright before being able to make use of it in a commercial way. Otherwise we have the problem of works still being locked away long beyond their copyright because even though the copyright has expired, nobody can be sure of it.<br>
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