I think it's pretty important, but it doesn't need to last as long as it does. There's a grey area between Disney and the having a plethora of Chinese clones the next month.

Make it only last 20 years from the copyright being granted or 2 years of the property going unused, whichever is less.

>>141173
>or 2 years of the property going unused
So all my favorite everything would get chinese clones after 2 years because they were one and done releases. Alternatively, all my favorite things will get progressively shittier and shittier because they worry more about protecting copyright than making something good.

When I write highly intellectual anonymous posts on imageboards like this one I don't care if chinks are plagiarizing my posts on some chinese website, and when I upload art I made I don't care if chinks are making kuso clones of it. In addition to killing copyright law, counterfeit money laws should also be killed so everyone can be rich and never need to worry about money or jobs again. Everyone can then either become self-sufficient farmers or starve, and the vast majority of survivors will find that they're much happier than when they were wageslaves or sexless basement dwellers.

>>141174
They already get Chinese clones the next day because Chinks don't care about western copyright law. Your favorite things keep getting shittier because they keep getting made by people who have the money to buy the rights and want to use them either to make more money or to push an agenda instead of by people who have an attachment to the ideas and artistic vision.

Copyright exists to provide just enough profit to encourage creation, anything beyond that instead does the opposite by rewarding IP hoarding and rehashing.

I love private equity firms buying up IPs I love and doing nothing with them forever!
"Did you like Kerbal Space Program? Well too bad! It's getting bought, it's sequel mishandled, then sold to the IP graveyard because it didn't make a gorillion dollars!"

current copyright law is why we have the disney live action remakes
if that’s not as good a reason as any to kill it I don’t know what is

Make it so you can't stop anyone from copying, only demand fair compensation for it.

>>141181
Really, if someone isn't making money off of it, then there should be no issue.

>>141173
This is my ideal compromise, although I would rather it be 5 years. Things like sequels tend to take quite a bit longer than 2 years.

>>141193
I think "in use" could encompass more than just "releasing a sequel". Projects in active development could easily be counted and I think just producing copies of the work for distribution would count as "using" it. I wouldn't want to incentivize shitting out a sequel every couple years just to keep the rights (like with Sony and Spiderman), but I also don't want Disney locking something away in the vault for five years to build artificial scarcity for a rerelease. That's a really low bar now that digital distribution is the norm, but there are still plenty of cases where games go offline and I shouldn't have to wait decades to release my own version of Concord.