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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Corporate works? Unchanged. With trademark and all the legal tricks out there the nominal length of their copyrights are just that: nominal. In practice, the corporate types will always have a fully copyrighted work that protects their interests in a given franchise.
Dragging them in will only make any effort at change impossible instead of nearly impossible.
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It's interesting-the corporate works I've had trouble with are out-of-print technical manuals. I guess there's a lot of stuff I never thought about copyright applying to-probably because so few people want copies of hundred-year-old contracts or memos. But copyright does apply to those just as it does to books. That's one of the biggest problems with lawmakers-they tend to make laws for the most common situations without understanding that a law must apply to *all* situations.