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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
So you are saying in effect that everyone who published under shorter copyright terms should remain that way and that the vast majority who published and continue to publish under the terms as they are right now should have those rights no matter what the future changes in the law may be?
Seems reasonable.
Helen
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Exactly right. I will add (as a sidebar) should this have been enforced, you would not be seeing this serial extension effort, by the big players.
As to copyright length itself, I prefer a fixed length over Life + X because it makes it simple to determine when something goes out of copyright. Trying to find the date of death of a an obscure author (or translator) can be extremely difficult, even in this day and age. It doesn't have to be 56 years, it can be longer. I would have a big problem with anything over 100 years flat. That averages out to around Life + 50. (Some shorter, some longer)