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Originally Posted by Hrafn
The Game of Thrones is a TV series. A Song of Ice and Fire is the book series. The first book in the series is titled A Game of Thrones. It is 17 years old, and ranks only #1,002 at Amazon. The latest, A Dance with Dragons, now two years old, ranks #81. guess which one contributes the vast majority of George R. R. Martin's royalties? As I said above:
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Did you think to check out the box set? Currently ranks at #44. That's not too shabby.
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Originally Posted by Hrafn
You keep harping on about a difference that makes no difference! [...]
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This is not the place for an economics course, if you can't see the difference for yourself then there is little I can do for you, I'm sorry.
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Originally Posted by Hrafn
[...]Why should we care that copyright enables so many more books to be written, if it also means that we can't buy a copy of many (most?) of them?
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But that's not really the point of limiting copyright is it? You aren't going to completely solve the lost copyright owner problem even if you drop the length down to just a couple of years, and a couple of decades is more than enough time to lose many owners. Tracking copyright ownership is a separate issue to the length of copyright.