The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales
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HN comment orderThe best way to reduce piracy of copyrighted works is to cut the copyright period by 75% relative to current standards. To be fair to individual living authors who hold their own copyrights, this would mean copyrights persisted 18 years past the author's death, or for 24 years after date of publication for for-hire contract jobs. This is comparable to the lifetime of technical patents, and so would allow for a reasonable period to collect revenue from the work that…
Quality headline... European Comission tries to hide study that piracy doesn't harm sales, is foiled by member of European Parliament. * And technically it seems the study found it harms for Blockbuster movies, helps for games, does negligible harm for books and has no effect on music. (Going by a German report on it[1]) [1] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Auswirkungen-von-Rau...
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2017-09-22 | The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales | electricant | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-09-23 | EU suppressed results of a study that found piracy doesn’t harm salesFirst breakout | ABS | 174 | 38 |
| 2023-04-25 | The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm SalesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | grecy | 580 | 171 |