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South Korea has passed a major Copyright Act Amendment cracking down on manga and manhwa piracy.
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this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Copyright laws are stupid. Copyright should expire the same way patents expire, after 10 years.
That would just further disenfranchise creators, most of whom don't make much (if any) money. Why would corporations fork out money for rights to stories/scripts/music when they can wait 10 years and get it for free? We have enough issues currently with corps stealing our IP to train their AIs, and then regurgitate almost exact copies to directly compete against us.
I think no matter which way you went smaller creators would get ground under heel but 10 years would be way too short. I don’t think the people downvoting you really thought about this. The Way of Kings was published in 2010. Brandon Sanderson would’ve lost the copyright in 2020. I can guarantee that some corporation would rather wait and not have to pay him to create a movie immediately as the copyright expired. I’m sure there are tons of other scenarios that I’m not thinking of but larger organizations will always be able to work the system better than smaller creators.
Copyright in the US used to be 17 years + an additional 17 years if the holder applied fpr an extension.
34 years to commercialize a franchise is plenty
And I think that would be better, 10 would be too short.