Given the options I would choose do away with copyright, but I think that 20 years from when it's written would be best. Also nobody should be allowed to make a profit of it after it entered the public domain because this is the only way to stop the publishers from making money of PD books.
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Originally Posted by sun surfer
To those who want a specific time period for copyright, especially a short one such as ten years, and not a "life+": What would you say to a poor author who publishes a book that bombs at first, but the minute it lapses out of copyright somehow it becomes a huge Harry Potter type phenom, leaving the author still poor?
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At least it would keep the author writing.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
But some certainly do - eg the posthumous works of J.R.R. Tolkein edited and published by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkein. We certainly wouldn't have that without copyright protection. Much of it isn't especially interesting, certainly, but there are some real gems there.
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We would have had that faster if there was no copyright protection.