> Writing books can be a pretty risky proposition from a financial point of view. Copyright should at least span an authors lifetime in my opinion.
Why is it accepted that patents can last only 20 years then? Like, do you think creating new inventions is easy? Why for one and not the other?
But the bigger thing is that books making significant amounts of money after twenty years is an extreme exception. That's not the motivating thing. It's a "maybe that'd be nice" on top of the desire for revenue in the immediate future, in the first few years of the book coming out.
Why is it accepted that patents can last only 20 years then? Like, do you think creating new inventions is easy? Why for one and not the other?
But the bigger thing is that books making significant amounts of money after twenty years is an extreme exception. That's not the motivating thing. It's a "maybe that'd be nice" on top of the desire for revenue in the immediate future, in the first few years of the book coming out.