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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Let's say you are 21. You write a novel. You reach the age of 72. Your work just became public domain. Some movie stuido decided to make a movie based on your work. The movie studio makes tons and tons of money from this movie. You are still alive, watching others make lots of money from your work and there is not a thing you can do about it. That is not fair in the least. You would be so pissed off. If the author is still alive, I do feel that he/she should be able to keep the copyright and make money on the work. I voted for 30 years after death for the work to become PD. But I also feel that once this 30 years after death has happened, any work that that author has written should be fully pD. And that includes someone else finding an unfinished manuscript, making it be finished and publishing it. So once the 30 years after death happens, that too becomes PD. So all those Tolkien books published after his death (even though they should have stayed unpublished) , would also go PD at the same time as the other books.
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Say I'm the son if this guy who made that novel at age of 21. When he dies at 31, I have to watch the movie maker to get millions when my daddy would have got 62 at age, and I can do nothing about it. When my daddy lives until 33 and dies after that, I get millions on his legacy... because 33 + 30 = 66...
How is the fairness into this? I just need that person alive in some sort of way (with artificial respiration) to get a lot of money?
I build a house when I am 25, I sell it at age of 30. Then ground prices shoot up, and the new owner sells it at my age of 35 making millions out of it, while I can do anything about it. How is the fairness into this?