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Originally Posted by pwalker8
My personal idea on copyright is that after an initial short copyright period, that copyright should expire if it's not commercially available in a common format for 10 years.
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That seems in line with what the U.S. Constitution says:
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"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
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To me this implies that the intention was for copyright to expire within the lifetime of the author.