alyaza [they/she]M to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year agoaskBeehaw: should copyright even exist at all? and if it should, how long should the ideal term of copyright be?message-square185fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1204arrow-down1message-squareaskBeehaw: should copyright even exist at all? and if it should, how long should the ideal term of copyright be?alyaza [they/she]M to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square185fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@derelict@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoEach jurisdiction in which it has protection
minus-squareBrikoXlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoEach country has it’s own copyright office. So you would need to pay in each of them where your work is distributed. They are just enforced almost globaly as majority of countries signed an agrement to recognize them.
Payable to whom?
Society. That is how taxes work.
Each jurisdiction in which it has protection
The US government?
Each country has it’s own copyright office. So you would need to pay in each of them where your work is distributed. They are just enforced almost globaly as majority of countries signed an agrement to recognize them.