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Originally Posted by HarryT
I am a little puzzled by these "copyright lasts forever" posts. In virtually every country in the world, new material enters the public domain every year (eg, in "life+70" countries, all those books whose authors died during 1940 will enter the public domain on 1st Jan 2011).
Copyright terms are long, but certainly not "eternal".
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As a practical matter, any novel published today will not go out of copyright until everyone who is alive today, dies. That's not "eternal," but it might as well be.