Copyright law doesn’t protect scientific facts so progress is able to be made, and it probably doesn’t protect authors and artists, so data inefficient AI can be trained.
I was simply noting it causes a dead weight loss in creative output, which has become much worse by extending copyright to effectively eternity. Almost everyone alive when steamboat willy hit theaters is not.
There are lower hanging fruit with greater ROI.
Copyright law doesn’t protect scientific facts so progress is able to be made, and it probably doesn’t protect authors and artists, so data inefficient AI can be trained.
I was simply noting it causes a dead weight loss in creative output, which has become much worse by extending copyright to effectively eternity. Almost everyone alive when steamboat willy hit theaters is not.
How do you know the ‘dead weight loss in creative output’ outweighs the positive effects in the first place?
It doesn’t seem obvious at all to me if there are no such arguments put forward.