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It's a complicated topic and any simple answer you posit is almost certainly wrong.
We don't really know anything about Harper Lee's state of mind. The rumors are worrisome and believable but they're only rumors and law can't deal with rumors. Only with facts.
It's certainly true that Congress has made a mockery of the "limited time" statement in the Constitution but they are Congress and they're entitled to do that. I'm very sure that a millennium down the road Disney will have lobbied them to set copyright's "limited time" to something like "forever minus one". There's nothing in the Constitution that prohibits Congress from mockery.
We don't have to like all this stuff. I certainly don't like it. But if we want to complain about it let's complain with facts and not rumors.
Barry
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