alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM 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-squaremessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1198arrow-down1message-squareaskBeehaw: should copyright even exist at all? and if it should, how long should the ideal term of copyright be?alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square185fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecollegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoPayable to whom?
minus-squareBrikoX@vlemmy.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 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.
minus-squarederelict@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoEach jurisdiction in which it has protection
Payable to whom?
Society. That is how taxes work.
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.
Each jurisdiction in which it has protection