The US Copyright Office offers creative workers a powerful labor protective.

  • JohnEdwa@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    To give an example, if all books were automatically public domain HBO could have created Game of Thrones without paying George R.R. Martin a single cent for it, then publish and sell “Game of Thrones: The Book”, aka the entire Song of Ice and Fire series, again without paying him anything and stealing all of his profit in the process.