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Originally Posted by DrNefario
There is a much greater overhead in trying to establish publication dates (and whether copyright was registered/renewed, etc) than the year of death. Life+ has the huge advantage of being straightforward.
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Finding the publication date is the easy bit. Finding the date of death of an author is always the hard bit.
But this isn't really about convenience. (An infinite copyright is much easier to determine than any finite one, after all.) It's about what's best for the public in the long run.