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Originally Posted by HarryT
Of course the reality is that very, very few books continue to earn significant revenue long after their author's demise, so I think the current situation of works entering the public domain a certain length of time after the author's death is a reasonable compromise, although one might debate how long that time period should be.
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I'd prefer to see a fixed time from publication, or the author's death, whichever gives the longer term. That is, say, 70 years
or life, instead of the current life
+ 70 years.
But I accept that the best I'm going to see is a reversion to life+50. And even that seems unlikely.