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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Forever is no more extreme in regards to intellectual property than it is with tangible property. If an author's rights expire 75 years after death, then shouldn't a landowner's rights also expire 75 years after death?
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You don't understand the *purpose* of copyright. The purpose of copyright is to encourage creators to contribute to the culture. Same as patents are to encourage inventors to contribute to the public good.
They're not to protect commercial rights into perpetuity. Without the public domain, there's no *culture*. Just a hash of commerciality.
Which may be fine with you, but that's not the original intent of the idea of copyright.