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Originally Posted by BookCat
Zodwallop: wouldn't this discriminate against poor authors in favour of rich ones like Disney? Is that fair? (BookCat hears her elder brother saying in her head: "Kate, no one ever promised life would be fair!" as BC, when 15, cried out, "But it's not fair!!")
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A nominal fee, say $50 isn't too much to ask to extend copyright.
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When to determine death? I'm sure some authors have been dead for years, they just keep walking around and pretending to be alive. I'm not refering to Cotard's Syndrome either. What about vampires who write novels? How do you determine their date of death?
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Vampires have to have died to be vampires (with a special, one time exception for
Morbius, the Living Vampire). And under my method, vampires would be protected as there's no rule against the undead renewing a copyright so long as they are recognized as citizens by their government
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Maybe publication date would be preferable, but without the option to extend.
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Publication without the option to extend would cause the same mess we currently have. The problem is that Disney dares not let Mickey Mouse fall in to the public domain. As things are now, they will move heaven and Earth to make sure that doesn't happen by extending copyright for everything.