[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by BookCat

Personally, I'd like to see a universal death plus 50.

I'd rather see longer of (date of publication + 50 years; date of death of author), as the UK had at the end of the 19th Century.

But since date of death + 50 years is the minimum term allowed by the Berne convention, I'd be happy if we went back to that in the UK.