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Dead people don't create...
The inherent problem with the copyright system is the ownership/creation mismatch. Once an author is dead, providing further copyright does not gain society anything further, that author not not going to create anything new. The publisher on the other hand, still wants to make their guaranteed middleman's cut, in perpetuity. Copyright keeps their monopoly intact.
It's even worse when the middleman owns the copyright, and not the creator. (This is standard for film). In this circumstance, the middleman considers the whole purpose of the law to provide the middleman with an endless monopoly.
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