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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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Yeah but if someone wants to write their own sequel to a first book, before the series is done, that's fine. Still not canon, just fanfic that can make a profit, and that sounds fine to me.
What happens when grifters generate a billion AI knockoffs and an artist can't protect their intellectual property
The above was advocating for a 25-year period between publishing and public domain. They'll have to somehow pay that mortgage with a quarter of a century of profit somehow.
New books get new protections anyway, so a 25-year-old series only loses book 1 to public domain. They can also release new editions of book 1 with new (canon) content, and those new things get new protections, too.
10, actually, is what he said