@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
Also consider something like GTA VI - how long has that been in development? Under that proposal, GTA V would now be out of copyright and I'd imagine GTA VI would never have been started.
Why do you assume it wouldn't be started just because its prequel is in public domain? This isn't how this works. Big studios make games based around public domain all the time. They'd still own the trademark, too. Also, they're Rockstar. Even if there was no copyright at all, any GTA by Rockstar would be massively more successful than any GTA by anyone else.
I'm thinking there should be 2 copyright terms, one for copies of the original work as is (could be 25 years no problem), and a shorter one for derivations (10 years is more than enough).