THE VIDEO SHELF · copyright term extension
Copyright: How It Went Wrong
CGP Grey's five-minute animated explainer on how copyright terms grew from 14 years to life plus decades. It uses Disney and Star Wars examples to argue the system has gone wrong.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN shares it as a short summary of why copyright length matters and the history of Disney-driven term extensions.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CGP Grey
- Topic
- copyright term extension
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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CGP Grey also did a fantastic video on the history of copyright and Disney's constant involvement. [VIDEO]
Chardok on Hacker News · 2017-12
In How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate BayWatchi these videos, and hopefully you'll understand why having 14 years for copyright is not the same as 30 or 100 years: [VIDEO] [LINK]
mtgx on Hacker News · 2012-12
In There Is Never a Need to Justify Sharing Culture and KnowledgeCopyrights are a deal passed between society and authors to encourage creative production. If they create something new, they can live off it for sometime until their copyright expires. Extending copyrights years after the author's death may serve a corporation or their children that can …
ucha on Hacker News · 2013-07
In Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1980s? Blame copyright
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