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Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo
IMHO, more books should be in the public domain. According to the following source works up to 1923 are currently in public domain in the US.
https://law.duke.edu/cspd/
I know it's not as simple as picking an arbitrary year but perhaps all books up to 1950 should be in public domain. |
I'd be happy with copyright lasting some set number of years, say a decade, which can be renewed every ten years for some nominal fee. That would allow film companies to keep their desired eternal copyright while allowing orphan works to fall in to the public domain.
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To argue otherwise seems to be more in the interest of censorship (i.e., making books less readily available) rather than profits. Thoughts?
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- Censorship is a loaded word
- The Tolkien estate would disagree that very long copyright has nothing to do with profits. I honestly don't understand where you are coming from with that as an argument.