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Originally Posted by shalym
In my case, at least, the kerfluffle isn't about works that are being deliberately held back, really. It's more about works that aren't being made available because nobody is really sure who controls the rights. If a nominal fee had to be paid every few years to maintain copyright, that wouldn't happen.
Shari
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As it stands now this becomes tricky with things like diaries etc, virtually everything becomes copyrighted as soon as it is produced.
Simplest way to implement a fee now is to change the way things work so copyright is for anything published and data protection laws for anything unpublished, this would mean getting the Berne convention changed though, as it's exactly this case it was created to stop (Prior to Data Protection Laws though).