UK Pirate Party leader: Shortening copyright could help creators | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics

UK Pirate Party leader: Shortening copyright could help creators | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics:

"Later in the interview, Kaye discusses how authors would make money from their books under a regime of decreased copyright protections. Kaye suggests that the current long copyright terms focus the industry on finding mega-hits that will keep earning money for decades, at the expense of a considerably larger number of people who just want to make a living from their writing.

He also notes that there are new business models that offer new opportunities, such as the “pay-what-you-want” model of sites such as Bandcamp and leveraging the way social networking allows making better connections with writers’ fanbase. And he points out that it’s not competition from other paid products that creators need to worry about."