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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because that's the way that intellectual property laws work.
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That's a cheap way out. Why does it work that way?
The answer is simply money. Money creates money. Publishers are so powerful that they simply buy the lawmakers into doing their bidding.
But my question remains:
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Why should the heirs of an author get up to 70 years after the death of that author get money, while a farmer won't get money from a plant he created even 26 years after he created it? Even if that farmer is still alive?
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