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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I'll go with Macauleys propostion and what the law had been for a long time, 40 years from publish date.
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Ok, I'm going to revise. 40 years from publish date OR until the authors death, whichever comes later.
This would provide plenty of ability for the author to get paid for his work. It would also allow for a very simple way of determining if a work was still copyrighted... you only need to answer two questions...
1. What was the published date?
2. Is the author still alive? (which can be hard at times to answer.)
(I answered 30 in the poll since 40 wasn't an option.)
BOb