So the original Star Trek series would’ve been public domain by the time the first movie was released? I don’t think that’s reasonable.
Competitors could have created their own Star Trek films and released them at the same time & really muddied things, preventing TNG from ever happening. I think it’s reasonable that a creator be able to control their creation’s direction for a good while until it’s firmly established as being what they wanted it to be. Creative work takes time, and so more time than you suggest seems only fair to me.
And why should startrek get some kind of exception? Just because they “made it” doesn’t nean hundreds if other series wouldn’t have been better even. Lots of trash is made because there is a cash incentive.
BTW, nowhere is it stated that you can trash the artwork either, that is how it is in france, you can use it but not abuse it.
So the original Star Trek series would’ve been public domain by the time the first movie was released? I don’t think that’s reasonable.
Competitors could have created their own Star Trek films and released them at the same time & really muddied things, preventing TNG from ever happening. I think it’s reasonable that a creator be able to control their creation’s direction for a good while until it’s firmly established as being what they wanted it to be. Creative work takes time, and so more time than you suggest seems only fair to me.
It would be from the release date.
And why should startrek get some kind of exception? Just because they “made it” doesn’t nean hundreds if other series wouldn’t have been better even. Lots of trash is made because there is a cash incentive.
BTW, nowhere is it stated that you can trash the artwork either, that is how it is in france, you can use it but not abuse it.
“Abuse” of creative work is in the eye of the beholder.
Star Trek was an example, not a specific call out. My point was the process often takes time and multiple steps.
Yeah that’s fair, but 10 years seems reasonable IMO, what do you think would be reasonable, and why?
Already answered since I started this thread.
Oh yes, sorry.
I think it’s too flimsy, any lawyer can argue it’s “relevant”. And if it is, it should absolutely be in the public domain IMO.
25 years is wild too IMO, but I already said that :-)