You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: The PUBG Lawsuit Will Fail And That's Good For Us
Oh good, I'm in the half that's not ticked off.
You make a good point.
It's easy to sympathize with the underdog though. If the roles were reversed, Epic would probably win the legal battle anyway.
We would be better off, as a society, if the current copyright laws went the way of the dodo. We could shift to a different way of rewarding creators and authors; one that does not involve forever restricting access to their work.
Personally, I'm a fan of a 7+7 year copyright scheme with protections more or less matching the current one. That would allow creators enough time to financially exploit their works, but also allow works to pass into public domain.
But then we release the vast majority of our stuff under an open license with attribution as the only requirement, so really we don't ask for anything more from people using our work than what you should ethically do when using a public domain work.