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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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Apart from the taxation argument, in some countries if you don't use the farm, and it becomes used by the public as open space, it
could eventually be taken away from you and become public land.
Both actually translate somewhat well to the copyright discussion, either as a requirement to pay taxes (renew copyright) or show usage (keep the work in publication) or risk losing the property.