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Old 01-19-2012, 05:25 PM   #154
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That's the choice that the American people have made, via their elected representatives. Most of us live in countries where new works do enter the public domain every year.
Well, yes, but I think he means that for new works it makes little difference to us whether the copyright is life+70 or unlimited.

I very much doubt that Harry Potter, for example, will fall into the public domain in my lifetime, nor my children's lifetimes.
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