I would like to propose a compromise between copyright holders who wish to profit from their IP in perpetuity and copyleft activists who want it to be freely available to posterity I propose a fixed copyright term of 20 years, after which all data is irrevocably destroyed
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This will have many benefits, like giving a boost to new creators by ensuring no older media exists for them to compete with or to be accused of plagiarizing
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Also, I will personally no longer have to deal with accusations that my childhood faves are problematic, as they will no longer exist in any form and it will be impossible to definitively prove whose memories are accurate
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The arguments people have over details of old books and shit will become extremely heated and protracted Luckily, those arguments will, themselves, be shortly deleted and forgotten, making this a self-solving problem
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It is my belief that by making it impossible to learn from history, we will indeed be doomed to repeat it, but we will have no knowledge of this fact, and therefore it will not bother us
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This feels weirdly... socratic. Like when he goes on an anti-writing things down because it just means bad ideas will proliferate because both old and new ideas will be competing with each other vs. bad and good ideas not being written down means only good ideas get remembered.
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Part of the benefit of my plan is that it means no one will be able to provide evidence for whether I just stole it from Socrates
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