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Originally Posted by QueridaNegra
Do we really think that people like Edgar Allan Poe would have been as prolific as they were with copyright the way it is today?
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It's odd that you should mention Poe. As one of the first American authors to attempt to make a living from writing, he really struggled against the pathetic copyright protection that he received at the time, especially the lack of any international copyright protection. He would have been much better served by the current copyright laws than by those that were in force at the time. One might argue that, had he received a decent income from his work, he wouldn't have died at the very early age of 40, and we'd have a lot more from him that we actually do.