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Old 10-26-2017, 04:56 PM   #119
pdurrant
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What I have a problem with is when other folks want to take away copyrights that belong to Author X, from his kids, or him, or, just because the book isn't currently available, during his copyright. That's my SOLE objection.
What I have a problem with is the way that the length of copyright has expanded retroactively, so that the length of copyright an author (or their heirs) now has is a lot greater than the author expected when they wrote the work.

What benefit has there been to society to justify giving this increased length of monopoly to works already written?

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