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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
I cannot speak to patents, but there's nothing stating that anything has to be available to the public to be protected by copyright.
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And that's my major gripe against the current copyright laws. If they won't lower the years after death, at least they should add the clause: "or as long as it's publicly available" (and I'd like to add, in as many forms as possible). Everybody agrees that the copyright laws are to make sure that the creator will get his just reward. But, if it's not available, why copyright it as he won't get any revenue from it anyway?