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Originally Posted by avantman42
I'd like to think that copyright terms are based on an analysis of available evidence, but I honestly think they're also arbitrary numbers.
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There's no number in copyright terms, unless you mean their length and the nitpicking regarding how long they will be uphelp after the author's death.
"...gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related rights. It is a form of intellectual property (like the patent, the trademark, and the trade secret) applicable to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete." - Wiki