Shoutout to Colin

[Robert Sneidar]

That is why I added the clause that the author or developer would be immune from such legislation. I'm talking about a company that buys the rights to something, then kills it. <ahemMicrosoftUrp>

Bob


On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Robert Sneidar wrote:
> 
> > There ought to be some kind of clause in copyrights where if a
> > producer who is not the author or developer of something sits
> > on it and does not produce a product from it within a certain
> > time frame, say 5 years, the author has the right to reproduce
> > it themselves.
> 
> While I can appreciate the sentiment, I have to say I would disagree with this in practice.
> 
> The most important element of intellectual property is the international respect for the act of creation, the recognition that the creator of a work has complete say over how it's distributed from the very moment of creation through a period of at least several decades afterward.
> 
> This is essential to maintain the motivation for creation.  After all, if there's no motivation to create, there's nothing to argue about distribution over, since the work would never have existed to begin with.