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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Yes, we're still waiting on a good reason for copyright to be eternal to change the law.
Thus far the arguments in that favor are as follows
1) I wrote it it's mine!
Which is easily rebutted with, copyright expires posthumously by a not insignificant amount of time, generally the life span of another person born the day you die. As it isn't property, we should not treat it as property.
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Copyright expires because there are laws making it so.