Copyright Insights
Posted By Ardellis on February 4, 2006
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has some interesting thoughts on the effects of modern copyright extension laws on the legacies of individual authors. Makes me hope that whoever inherits any intellectual property I leave behind will realize that I’d rather have it out there where people can see it than moldering while they wait for that big media deal that’ll never happen.
And that goes double if I somehow manage to become the next JRR Tolkien (ha!). I hear that the estate has such a choke-hold on the professor’s copyrights that it occasionally tries to prevent people from using the Tengwar and, of course, the languages. From what I hear, the only reason the movies ever got made was that Tolkien himself sold the film rights before he died.
I mean, really. Do you think Walt Disney would appove of telling kids that they can’t have Mickey on their birthday cakes because the cake shop isn’t allowed to reproduce his image?
It shouldn’t be more about the money than about the enjoyment of the art.
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