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Originally Posted by tompe
This life+70 years are more annoying for me know after having read the argumenation concerning a balance of interests in Lessig's book. Now I consider this long copyright after the death of the creator as immoral.
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I agree that copyright-based compensation should be able to be passed on to the survivors of a creator, if he/she passes before the copyright period is over. However, I agree that the length of that extension is over-long. It should be based on the normal length of the copyright (for instance, if it is set to 20 years, as suggested here) and no longer.
One exception,
maybe: If the survivors are not yet adults, and have no other legal guardians, extension could conceivably be granted until they are considered to be of adult age.