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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I'd also say that the relative unimportance of content is exactly what makes it feasible to have longer copyright durations than patents. If you have a disease, and only one company has the right to make the drug to cure it for 75 years, even if the company goes bust, that's going to present a serious problem. If you wrote a cheap paperback mystery novel in the 1950s, no one is likely to die because it's out of print.
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I agree that copyright should be of a longer period than patent.