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Originally Posted by ratinox
This is why copyright is supposed to be time limited. What's supposed to happen is that, after the copyright term expires, the protected work enters the public domain. The big problem with copyright in the US (and the parts of the world the US has successfully browbeat into following) is that copyright terms keep being extended in order to keep "Steamboat Willie" out of the public domain.
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There are
good arguments that Steamboat Willie is already in the public domain.
There's a
wager currently running on MobileRead about copyright length in the US.