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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Personally, I'd like to see a 20 year window on copyright from the date of creation/publication and automatic transfer to public domain UNLESS the owner of the creation renews with a national registry ... for 20 year terms and a maximum of two renewals.
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I'd like to see a return to the good old days when there were only a handful of hand-copied versions of each book, all chained to the desk. Readers would have to take holy orders before they were allowed to open the covers.