Copyright Term Extension
Retroactive extensions privilege legacy estates over public-domain enrichment.
"Culture rented forever to the dead."
What is Copyright Term Extension? Retroactive extensions privilege legacy estates over public-domain enrichment. IP regimes shape cultural production for generations.
Sonny Bono-era extensions.
IP regimes shape cultural production for generations.
Term limits with sunset review. Public-domain protections.
Flip the incentive. Watch the side-effect move.
Retroactive extensions privilege legacy estates over public-domain enrichment. Caught in the wild: Sonny Bono-era extensions.
In the room: IP regimes shape cultural production for generations.
Counter-move from the Atlas: Term limits with sunset review.
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- Business
- Leadership
- Government
- Healthcare
- Education
- Sales
- Marketing
- AI
- Negotiation
- Media
- Public Policy
- Relationships
- Where in our org would Copyright Term Extension most often show up unnoticed?
- Which metric, ritual, or contract clause quietly rewards Copyright Term Extension?
- If we removed every payoff for Copyright Term Extension, what behavior would replace it?
- Who benefits when Copyright Term Extension persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of copyright term extension.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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Your nervous system has a region for this.
When you encounter Copyright Term Extension, your dopamine system is tracking the gap between what you expected and what you got — and that gap is what's driving the next move, not the reward itself.
Wanting, anticipation, prediction error, motivational salience. Predictable rewards stop motivating. The phone buzz fires dopamine; the message itself rarely does.
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Ranked by shared learning paths, overlapping chips, and what you've saved.
Free products monetize attention, structurally aligning incentives against user time well spent.
CTR-driven distribution rewards misleading framing over accurate reporting.
Per-view payouts reward volume and frequency over craft and depth.
Tax/inspection exemptions on low-value parcels subsidize a flood of unverified imports.
Revenue from behavioral targeting structurally opposes user privacy.
Ranking systems trained on engagement amplify outrage, fear, and tribal content.
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More definitions to follow
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When a system in equilibrium is disturbed, it shifts to counteract the change.
Systems with weak corrective feedback drift unchecked into failure modes.
Herbert Simon's frame: agents use heuristics that work under real cognitive limits, not impossible global optima.
Humans need autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
Pick the option that wins on the single most important cue; ignore the rest.
How will I feel about this in 10 minutes / 10 months / 10 years?
Saying it often enough until objections fade.
Treating one kind of thing as if it belonged to a different ontological category.
The same message in a different setting produces a different result.
Substance dependence distorts judgment and accelerates decline.
Gigerenzer's view: simple heuristics that exploit the structure of the environment can beat complex models.
Following the group instead of using private information or independent judgment.