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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
You know, after reading so many posts about how copyright needs to extend far, far beyond the life of the author to protect the interests of those that they leave behind, it seems that they are now considered some kind of vultures that try to make money out of the work that someone else has done.
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I see what you mean. Whenever MR gets into the argument dealing with lifetime+forever on copyright - you always hear the cries of "it helps protect the families" of the author after death. But now the author's family is the problem? Why should copyright get extended for such a long period of time when it leads to the family being shut out of the author's creation? Because what we seem to be heading for is "studios and publishers get complete control over other people's work" not "protection of the author and family."