Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

I'm not a fan of copyright, but "never" is just as bad as "for ever".

The US got it approximately right with its "fourteen years". The majority of any value, for any work, is extracted in the first 10 years or so. Beyond that, most works are pretty worthless.

So let's make it a round 15 - all works are automatically protected for 15 years from publication - but if you want to avail yourself of that protection you must put the date on the work. After that, if the work has value you (as a real-person author, or the "heir alive at publication") can renew the copyright on a register for successive 15-year intervals (PLURAL) for a smallish fee.

And for people like Disney, Marvel, etc etc, you can trademark your work to keep control of your valuable universe if you wish.

So this will achieve the US aim of "encouraging works into the Public Domain" and works won't "rot in copyright" because people won't pay to extend it.

Cheers,
Wol