Subj : most money made within 5 yrs.
To : Adept
From : Ogg
Date : Sat Dec 14 2024 09:09 am
Hello Adept!
Og>> There are many examples of cases where a work gains attention
Og>> or a resurgence many years later. So.. to assume the initial 5
Og>> yrs is when "most of the money is made" is not necessarily
Og>> true.
A> It is absolutely true in the way I meant it, which is that,
A> for the total value produced by copyrighted works, "most of
A> the money made from copyrighted things by the original
A> makers would still be made" with a copyright of 5 years.
One example of what I speak.. Wonkey Donkey - was out of print
for many years, until there was a video of a grandma reading
the book to a kid. The publisher re-released the book and made
a much bigger killing than originally.
A> This is likely to be true, because it has been reliably
A> true in the past, and there's no reason to think it'll
A> change.
It's probably an expectation, but not necessarily always true.
It really depends on marketing.
A> Obviously, the estate of William Shakespeare would be
A> making a killing, if copyright were forever, even if most
A> of the rest of writing from that era would likely never be
A> worth re-publishing or writing derivative works from.
