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Originally Posted by crossi
The whole point of copyright is to benefit the public. The economic advantage of idividual creators is not the goal but only the means to increase the amount in the public domain. The government should only support copyright for the minimum time to provide the most new public domain works. Too short and there is less incentive to create, too long and the whole point of copyright is negated as works are lost as they become orphaned or just withheld from the public. Life plus 70 years is way too long. Going on and on about the economic loss to the heirs of the creators 70 years after the creator died and maybe 100 years since he last created anything is completely beside the point.
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I agree. And what ever Mark Twain's genuine opinion of copyright terms may have been, I like his stated idea that it should let him "...take care of his children. Let the grandchildren take care of themselves."
ApK