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Originally Posted by arjaybe
In your suggestion, refraining from publication allows for a potential eternity of copyright, unless you make the mistake of dying. Going to take a while to unearth the complications there.-)
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If a work isn't published, no-one can copy it, no matter what its copyright status. One has to have a copy of a work (or the original) before one can copy it, after all.
I add the 50 years from death of author clause to encourage publication of unpublished works.