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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Because it puts this iconic book out of reach of a lot of people who want to own the pBook.
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How is this any worse than outstanding original art being out of my reach to purchase? I go to the museum to view great art, and use the library to read outstanding books.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Eventually, the pendulum will swing. That's normally what happens when people go too far in one direction.
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I do tend to believe in regression to the mean and pendulum swings.
However, the length of US copyright protection for a book like Mockingbird (published in 1960 by author who died in 2016) is at least ten years less than for a comparable work in almost every other country. If the pendulum swings, it could easily swing to a consistent life plus 50 or, more likely, 70. This would reduce the copyright length for
Go Set a Watchman, but increase it for
To Kill a Mockingbird.