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Old 03-08-2011, 08:31 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by charmian View Post
I really think it should apply to the author's life, but if the author should die shortly after completing the work, 10-20 years plus optional renewal of ten more years.

If the author survives forty or more years after the work is completed, there should be an option for the heirs to renew for ten more years, in my opinion.
And what about copyrights for ideas expressed by individuals who have contracts with entities to transfer rights of their ideas to said entities upon their expression. Corporations are people after all, can they not express ideas, is not copyright already in some senses perpetual??

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