Thread: How long should a copyright last?
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Old 10-15-2013, 10:38 PM   #251
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
What due course? The "due course" should have already been in the public domain. If you say starting in 2018, what assurance that the very organizations that extended the copyright in 1978 and 1998 won't do it again in 2018?
I guess that could happen, in which case I guess there will be another thread here. Life+50 is about as much as I'm willing to argue to support, I think that does the job well enough, but then I've not seen the arguments in support of longer periods (not on here anyway ). It may necessary to start finding ways to more definitively value the public domain if that is going to be used as an argument against further extensions.
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