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Originally Posted by acidzebra
I did wonder at the time why you agreed with those words - as they say in a rather nice way "the new copyright system sucks and people won't take it, and as a result living authors will be hurt".
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Why do I agree with them? Because I think that Macauley was absolutely right in saying that the "rules" about how works of dead authors can be used must ultimately be the detriment of living authors. I'm certainly no fan of enormously long copyright terms.