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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
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?
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One reason that copyright is automatic is to provide protection
against something being published without the author's permission. eg, if you write a diary, you have a right that it should remain private until 70 years after your death.