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Originally Posted by murg
Not that the authors that have died really care about this now.
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Very good point. There's a fascinating interview from the early '70s with German author Arno Schmidt. He is furious that his book
Zettel's Traum has been pirated and goes on a long rant against book piracy. So he is as outspoken a defender of copyright as you will find; and in the same interview he declares that he thinks copyright shouldn't last any longer than twenty years after the author's death. So the other fifty years are for the industry. Yay.