14 years made sense when there were wooden printing presses and the fastest communication was a rider and a horse carrying a handwritten letter sealed in wax. They arguably need less time to monetize today than they did back then. Years-long (or, as it is now decades-long and centuries-long) periods are about giving someone the right to tax culture for many generations, not about incentivizing creativity. It undermines the public domain.
5 years is probably at the lower end of actually extracting a large fraction of total value on most works and yet not hampering cultural remixes.
Language has meaning, and the puplic domain is a better situation for society. It is more interesting to say it ascended
The question shouldn't be about how much it costs but why do things cost anything in the beginning, and if they have to what is the amount a specific piece should be retributed for its contribution to society minus how the non-zero cost impacts society.
AIs are being let off the hook with their massive copyright infringement but when a movie being open directly benefits everyone suddenly that's a problem.
This is utterly nonsensical. You've invented a new definition of piracy to try to claim that streaming services are piracy.
Specifically at this point:
>no one pays anyone anything for content
This is literally factually incorrect. Netflix pays billions per year to copyright holders. Just because it's indirect payment in the form of a subscription doesn't mean you're not paying for the right to view content.
The economist I know of who calculated a socially optimal copyright duration, Rufus Pollock, came up with an estimate of 20 something years.
This makes sense from the point of view of finance because the NPV of extra years beyond this is very low. To put it in qualitative terms, no one is thinking about their grandchildren's pensions when they decide to create a work.
Personally I would also have different durations and rules for different types of work: a book, a video, and a piece of software are very different works and need diffferent incentives
