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"I said it frustrates me that games more than a couple of decades old
aren’t entering the public domain. Twenty years was a fairly arbitrary
number, one that seems to make sense in the context of games’ lives, but
it could be twenty-five, thirty. It’s not the point here. My point was,
and is, that I have a desire for artistic creations to more quickly
(indeed, at all) be released into the public domain, after a significant
period of time during which the creator can profit."
An impassioned editorial on the importance of the cultural commons.
Some interesting discussion in the comments, too.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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