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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
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publishers might just hold off on buying anything from someone 70+, on the theory that it would become free soon enough.
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In 2012 publishers are still making money from Homer's works.
And he's been dead for almost 3000 years.
The "no copyright = no money" argument is clearly contradicted by facts.
OTOH, if Homer was still in copyright, Dan Simmons could not have had permissions to write "Ilium" and "Olympus", two great novels with Homer's characters.