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Originally Posted by pdurrant
As an author you have been granted a monopoly on the reproduction of your literary output for your lifetime and for 70 years after that, to encourage you to create.
IMO this is an excessive period. Would you really be less inclined to write, if your monopoly only lasted for the greater of fifty years from publication or your lifetime?
Lifetime+70 is just far too long.
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You may be surprised to hear that I actually agree with you that life + 70 is excessive. I'd be happy with, say, life + 25. I think the point about it being "more" than life is important; if I'm an author with a wife and young children, they should be able to continue to receive income from my books in the event of my death.