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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
I really don't understand. You say that copyright should last forever, but out of copyright works are excluded from copyright lasting forever? If copyright lasts forever, then there will be no out of copyright works. Or do you just think that there should be no new works put in the public domain... so anything written today should still be under copyright half a millenium from now?
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How do you undo the past? How do you economically track down the legal heirs to every author that ever existed? What's done is done.
You start with the "now" and move forward.