This iconic mouse is weeks away fromn being in the public domain Jan. 1, 2024, is the day when ‘Steamboat Willie’ enters the public domain

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    9 months ago

    Linux, Firefox, LibreOffice, etc. are all labor intensive to make and trivial to copy.
    People buy games on Steam they could easily pirate cause it’s more convenient.
    And you could just turn AAA games into a subscription model or charge for accessing the server per hour.

    Novels can be financed through donations to pay for the author’s time, or by a government grant.
    Journalism lives from being the first to publish something, by the time it’s copied it’s already worthless, even in today’s model.
    Science journals and text books should be financed by the state and made available for free.

    My takeaway message here is: Removing copyright won’t remove the demand for media. If supply dries up because current distribution models aren’t profitable, the demand will drive other methods of monetization.