{"id":360,"date":"2007-08-11T18:42:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T23:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/11\/research-says-copyright-should-be-14-years\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T03:02:34","slug":"research-says-copyright-should-be-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/11\/research-says-copyright-should-be-14-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Says: Copyright should be 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/112\/316337784_cc3e520e63_m.jpg\" height=\"228\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 228px\" \/>I have been doing some research on copyright and how things should be.\u00a0 I came across this paper by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rufuspollock.org\/economics\/papers\/optimal_copyright.pdf\">Rufus Pollock<\/a>.\u00a0 He is a graduate student studying economics and intellectual property rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Pollock, as the cost of producing a creative work goes down, the length of copyright should follow the same trend.\u00a0 Copyright for a creative work created today should last only fourteen years.<\/p>\n<p>In actuality, copyright law has done the opposite and increased from\u00a014 years in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copyright_Act_of_1790\">1790<\/a> to about 100 years (life of the author plus 70 years) today.\u00a0 Giving the author control of the copyright for a long duration ensures that any income produced by the work goes to the author.\u00a0 Pollock&#8217;s calculations show this isn&#8217;t true and that we are stifling innovation with longer and longer copyright restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been doing some research on copyright and how things should be.\u00a0 I came across this paper by Rufus Pollock.\u00a0 He is a graduate student studying economics and intellectual property rights.\u00a0 According to Pollock, as the cost of producing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/11\/research-says-copyright-should-be-14-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[339,336,2],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-edtech","tag-copyright","tag-edtech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}