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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I think you mean 1976 for the US, not 1923. 1976 was when the US joined the Berne treaty and went from 28+28 to life+50 or 75 years.
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Nope., 1923 - it's the year when US accepted the copyright claims from overseas.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The US has a public school system for two major reason, first it was thought that everyone should be able to read the Bible and second because it was recognized that a Democracy requires an informed citizenry.
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I am not talking about US since copyright is not an US-only concept. But anyway, the fact that all those authors received education on other people's money remains, and should not be forgotten. In ther past, when the church was the only schooling system in the world, the pupils were practically oriented towards church business, some of them being lent to state authorities for drafting acts and other legal businesses (thus the origin of the words
clerk and
clerical error since the church, widespreading the God's word, cannot possibly be wrong
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The author should release the work to the public when the public decides s/he should do it. An inventor working in a company cannot claim the invention for himself, for the same reason, he used company resources to invent it. Why the public be always the stupid in this game, and only the companies get the profit and benefits?
However, reading the Bible does not contravene the separation of church from the state?