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Originally Posted by Harmon
See, I think that this situation exists because of the copyright laws we have.
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Certainly US copyright law seems to be tilted way too far in favour of the rights-holder rather than the public, when it comes to copyright length. I can think of no other country in the world where
nothing has entered the public domain since 1923. Copyright terms may indeed be lengthy in other countries, but people there can at least see with their own eyes that new work does enter the public domain at the start of every year. Eg, I can be confident that Lucy Maud Montgomery's works are going to enter the UK public domain on 1st Jan 2013 - I don't have to worry that someone is going to change the copyright term to prevent me from getting them.