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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
I'm asking because I really don't think you've thought this through. Not a single country in the world has perpetual copyright, even countries with the strongest intellectual property rights. There's a good reason for this. It's impractical, for one thing, and certainly not fair, for another. A person from 500 years ago has thousands, possible tens or hundreds of thousands of descendants. Why should one of them own the rights to a work they had absolutely nothing to do with?
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Why should someone be allowed to inherit their uncle's millions when they had absolutely nothing to do with its creation?