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Originally Posted by norway1456
To summarize: many companies and authors earn money today from works in the public domain, and on the legacy on works in the public domain. This without any noticeable effect on the works or creators by said content. When the copyright is too long, it will block innovation and creativity, and actually have the opposite effect from the intended effect.
Note that I do not say that we should abandon all copyright, but life+70 is far too long to be justified from the intention of copyright.
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I disagree. I don't see eternal copyright as a restriction upon creativity. For example; even if Dracula was still under copyright, there'd still be plenty of room for innovation in the genre of vampires since Dracula was based upon folklore passed down for centuries. Anyone would be free to create their own stories based upon this folklore without infringing upon Dracula's copyright.