Thread: Why are DRM ebooks evil and why should I avoid them like the plague?
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Old 04-06-2011, 09:22 PM   #157
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
This is technically true, of course. It it doesn't get extended again (Hello, Disney!) we're talking about life + 70 years. Unless we are talking about re-releases near the end of that term (where the author has been dead for, say, 60+ years) I don't think we'll have to worry about that just yet, certainly not for new books by a living author.
Like George Orwell who died in 1950; 2021 will be the end of the Life+70 span?

Mahatma Gandhi, died in 1948; 2019 should see the release of his works?

Adolf Hitler, 1945... 2015 is not too far away.

The issue of ability to remove DRM from entering-public-domain works is not an abstract intellectual one. It's coming up soon in the US, and is a constant issue in other countries.
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