Copyrights are designed to create incentives, but we know about this universe.
copyrights to Publishers but later on in our system to the authors of new things
copyrights and how to open them and still maintain some creative, you know, protection for artists and some way to make some money and live.
existing copyrights by 20 years the 11th time Congress had extended the term of existing copyrights in the past 40 years
indeed so copyrights probably came uh much longer periods of control because
their trademarks and copyrights back so with him he brought this long white scroll and he unrolled it on a
issues they they recognize copyrights government interference they recognize that patents are government interference in the market they recognize that the
they recognize copyrights government interference they recognize that patents are government interference in the market they recognize that the government does a lot of things to to push income upwards so I think there's
wealth to the people who own those copyrights today.
very rich man I don't want copyrights um but copyrights are a real big government intervention same with patents drug patents uh drugs are very expensive
because you know may be copyrights maybe you don't want to protect it at all maybe you want to use Creative Commons um and uh maybe you want to get it out
Act--a statute which extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years.
And I don’t just mean patents and copyrights in our Constitution.
assembling patents, assembling copyrights , assembling land.
But we are interested in whether it's truly necessary to have these copyrights and patents in place, these monopoly rights protected by the government, to have those
I am intrigued by your prescription for how we can change the model for copyrights , and I look forward to reading that,
I think the mistake is that if I own a bunch of copyrights , it's really valuable, and the mistake becomes important when it's a policy issue, right?
it's only a little bit longer than it was originally whereas copyrights have like you know uh you know there were 14
clearly to sure that only those things that should be granted patents or copyrights are ones which serve a larger
had said repeatedly in other cases that the purpose of patents and copyrights is
climate and when we go hey what's this oh I hope I have the copyrights I ask
credits were routinely requested demanded or simply taken from the original artists while the copyrights themselves were often assigned by the
sending a letter to this producer that said you know you're violating our copyrights take it down you know no more right now they haven't filed a lawsuit
Movies have copyrights .
By the way, I just want to point out that we broke no copyrights at all in that.
of one of the leading treatises on copyright law, 'Patry on Copyrights ', so thanks very much for joining us today, Bill.
The longer answer is that I don't, I don't regard the book as saying copyrights failed.
male #4: So it seems like there's a lot of pressure to have these laws around copyrights , sort of.
So obvious was it that you could not extend the public good by extending the term of existing copyrights .
But apparently there were no brains in this place when Congress unanimously extended the term of these existing copyrights .
the past couple days was you know who do what does Fred Wilson think uh stealing all these copyrights I I don't know that
And the analogy I use to talk about copyrights is essentially, it's as if every time cars got faster, we lowered
government than what the conservatives Envision in some cases it might mean a smaller role I talk about copyrights and patents well copyrights May Bill Gates a
so when we think of it as a public policy question to what degree should government provide these Monopoly rights which is what copyrights and patents and
I don't want copyrights . Um, but copyrights are real big government intervention.
The copyright of Mickey Mouse, and the fact it's been extended and re-extended-- there's the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act-- that basically retroactively extended copyrights .
But for the most part, patents are 20 years for everything regardless, and copyrights are life of the author, that kind of thing.
And so we built a wall of IP, those 13 patents, of all the different ways of protecting it-- from trademarks, to copyrights , to patents.
You know, I worked with you guys back in early 2000, and it's so--back there where licensing, music copyrights at Listen at the time, do
They actually believe all the things that are said, and if you read some of the things that are said, copyrights supposedly can do everything but cure the sick,
It can't. Fred: Alright, so your discussion about extending copyrights to three dimensional works of architecture reminds me that of, a lot of the discussion
Fred: I wonder, I mean, that’s, in some ways, that's a real departure from traditional copyrights .
What there was, was more than six million dollars in contributions from Disney and related corporations seeking the extension of their valuable copyrights --the public be damned.
So, immigration, anti-trust, copyrights , network neutrality.
The copyrights expired.
And then, we had all these treatments, and then we needed photographers and writers and illustrators and copyrights and all sorts of things to come in and bring those treatments
Um, you know, this person asks, how do you feel about copyrights and the funds needed uh, copyrights ,
I talk about copyrights and patents. Well, copyrights made Bill
I'm a son, I'm a husband, I'm a volunteer, I'm a student, and I'm a teacher, and I don't want all those rules to be sacrificed on copyrights ' altar.