[sp0rk]

> Fantasy book are a good example. A Games of Thrones was first released in 1996 but had middling success. It was only after 2011 that the series exploded in popularity. Good Omens main peak was ~15 years after release. Hell, some books like Handmaiden's Tale were published in 1985 but only reached their peak in 2010.

Using your example and the rules suggested in the grandparent post, GRRM's copyright would have been set to initially expire in 2024, where he would be able to pay $100k to renew it until 2038. Handmaiden's Tale works in a similar way, with the initial expiration in 2013.

This still seems very reasonable to me.

[bnj]

Keep in mind that under such a system, corporations would have a financial incentive to wait just a bit longer to do an adaptation

[throw0101c]

> Keep in mind that under such a system, corporations would have a financial incentive to wait just a bit longer to do an adaptation

Meanwhile they are currently buying up IP and locking it up for decades in such a way that no one can build on it.

Sherlock Holmes, who was created in the 1800s, only became public domain (but not all of it) a few years ago:

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/sherlock-holme...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/01/how-sherlo...

BigCorps could do a lot of things under a new regime, but they are already doing shitty things. I'd rather deal with the current problems and then see if/what kind of new issues crop up, and then course-correct then.

[wongarsu]

GRRM is already beating them at that game by publishing a new book in the series every couple decades. That might become a common tactic in such a copyright environment

[ronsor]

I find it strange how people are so invested in spiting $BigCorpThatMightDoBadThing that they're willing to harm the public at large as well.