Thread: What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?
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Old 01-03-2012, 05:01 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
Copyrights that last forever are a truly bad idea. Just imagine a world where you had to pay the descendants of every work ever written. How would you track down the rightful copyright holder to Shakespeare's work, or Homer's work, or Dickens' work, or any author who is more than just a couple of generations old? We would soon run the risk of great works of art being lost forever. Actually, this is a problem we have right now. There are millions of books, songs, paintings, and movies that are disappearing from our culture forever because nobody knows who has the legal right to these works of art.
How do you track down property owners after several generations?
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