Nah I personally think taking some dead author's racist books off the shelf and letting them rot in the vault for 70 years until no one remembers them anymore is very goodhttps://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1367854980036694018 …
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1984 memory-holing it would also mean everyone would be required to destroy any copies of the withdrawn books, which isn't true. There's hundreds of millions of copies of them floating around, very few people are gonna actually bother to root them out of their libraries.
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"It's just like 1984!" Meanwhile, the used bookstore around the corner has 87 copies of each book available for 15 cents each.
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I always think about the fact that everyone loves that Bill Watson never allowed Calvin & Hobbes merchandising or some corporation to make an animated version with all the sharp edges rounded off - which is only possible because of his control over the property.
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And it first started publication in 1985, so most of these 30-year ideas mean it would have started to come into the public domain five years ago. There's a 100% chance Netflix or someone else would have started such a cartoon if they could have.
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If copyright lasted 30 years, every streaming service could have every movie from before 1990
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