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Originally Posted by leebase
Consider a farm. You farm every year and sell the produce/live stock. But the farm continues to exist. There isn't a time where we just say "ok, farmer, your land is now in the public domain for anyone to farm and take the proceeds for themselves".
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Except when the farmer can't pay taxes and then the state takes it away. We don't currently charge a copyright renewal fee, but if we did, almost everything would eventually end up in the public domain because it wasn't commercially viable.