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Originally Posted by Amalthia
thanks everyone for answering. For some reason I thought the Hornblower books were much older.
re: Bill - it also bothers me somewhat that copyright is 95 years...I guess to me that feels kind of excessive considering most people have a life expectancy of 70-80 years (depending on country, Japan I think is 100)
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But shouldn't a person be entitled to earn income from something he/she created? And leave that potential income to heirs?
Certainly the person who developed the coca-cola formula has been able to leave it to future generations of the same family, why shouldn't the author of a book written at the same time be able to share the same good fortune?
How about the owner of a hotel built in the same year? That can be left from generation to generation with nobody complaining that the hotel should be public property after a period of time.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but I can see both sides of the situation. I think copyright protection is too long and too restrictive and far from the U.S. Constitution's original intent.
But if other types of property can be protected by law and left from generation to generation until they fall down or the universe ends, why not creative property?