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Richwood · 02-08-2018, 06:34 PM

I think that our current copyright law is ridiculous. To me, if a book is out of print or ebook commercial availability for 25 years then it should lose copyright, even if the author is still alive. If out of new commercial availability for that long then what is the chance of a publisher spending the time and effort to reissue it? Probably 99% of copyrighted material falls into that category I suspect. Also copyright should only be issued to the author rather than allowing publishers to hold ownership.

02-08-2018, 06:34 PM	#111
Richwood Astronomy Nut Posts: 519 Karma: 3700000 Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Reno, NV Device: Kindle (All), Kobo (Multiple), Sony (most) and Nook Glowlight Plus	I think that our current copyright law is ridiculous. To me, if a book is out of print or ebook commercial availability for 25 years then it should lose copyright, even if the author is still alive. If out of new commercial availability for that long then what is the chance of a publisher spending the time and effort to reissue it? Probably 99% of copyrighted material falls into that category I suspect. Also copyright should only be issued to the author rather than allowing publishers to hold ownership.