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Originally Posted by avantman42
While I would like to see copyright laws change, I firmly believe that terms for existing copyrighted material should not change, whether terms are shortened or extended. Anyone who already has copyrighted material has agreed to a given set of rules - I don't think it's fair to change the rules after the agreement has been made.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
How about reverting copyright to the length in place when a piece was originally published, which would put a lot of books & movies into the public domain?
Everything published in the US before 1955 would be in the public domain if the laws hadn't been changed. I don't see how putting things back to the expectations that existed when those things were published hurts those authors/musicians/film creators; after all, 28+28 was enough incentive for them at the time.
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I agree. I thought I'd said so, but perhaps I didn't make myself clear.