Thread: interesting NYT article on "copyright morality"
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Old 12-29-2007, 01:06 AM   #129
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Copyright law allows you to do the same, albeit only for 70 years after your death.
If we were talking US law, I'd say you were wrong. It's indefinate. Every time the 1923 copyrights come up for expiration, they are extended.

Copyrights in the US will always be for the time it's been since 1923, plus a decade or so.

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