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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's equally true of the Berne convention, which specifically states that signatories are free to use however long a copyright term they wish, provided it's not shorter than life+50 years, but, despite that, in the overwhelming majority of countries which are signatories to the Berne Convention, new material enters the public domain every year.
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And why have Berne terms been extended? Not for the benefit of the creators (they're dead and no longer caring), but for the copyright middlemen. And they want perpetual copyright. So there will never be a hard limit on copyright, but something that can be extended, over and over