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Originally Posted by Barcey
I don't think it's about how good you are. The majority of the money is made in the first few years after release. The works that are still making money after 28 years have already earned enough money to compensate the creators. The law shouldn't be written to handle the most exceptional circumstance. It should be written to handle the majority of creative works and balanced against the common good.
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That may be true for novels and thrillers etc., but it isn't necessarily true for non-fiction and text books. Some of those works need decades to gain a return of what it cost to produce them, for specialized encyclopedias or dictionaries it may take more than 30 years before they recoup their investment. Imagine something like an English - Burmese - English dictionary. It wouldn't be produced unless the publisher knew it was protected for a long time.
That is the problem with the present copyright law, it puts everything in the same boat, when a flottila would have made more sense.