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Old 04-07-2011, 02:49 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
As I've stated elsewhere, the problem I see with "life of the author" concepts is that authors will claim that their young child was a co-author, thus extending the copyright term another (perhaps) fifty years.
So far, that's not been done in the areas that have "life plus XX". Plus that runs into other legal issues, due to the supposed author being a minor. Usually that is enough to squash it.
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