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Originally Posted by sonofpendragon
I think it should last forever anyway, so that's an easy one for me. I think others have mentioned here something similar, but none of us can turn up at someone's luxury villa on the Algarve 70 years after it was built, and say to the residents' 'clear out, folks, it's ours now', yet we can do this with books (based on the authors' demise, not the age of the book itself).
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Uh, no, eternal copyrighters continue to make this false and silly analogy. A more apt analogy would be that you would not be able to build an similar version of another person's luxury villa without permission (or paying that person).