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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
For simplicity I support 100 full years from the year of first publication (the year of publication is Year 0 and it doesn't matter if it was published on 1 January or 31 December in that year), and it can not be renewed. This would give the artist and their heirs plenty of time to profit from the publication, and would make it easy to determine when the copyright on a publication expires.
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Yes, I think something to this effect would be good. It's simple - no need for anyone to go hunting around for author(s) and working out who died. My only stipulation is that it must be long enough to see out the life span of the author(s) - so they can choose, if they want, to be long dead before having to see what tortuous things get done with the work after it enters the public domain, so maybe 120 years. (Obviously it's a stipulation that is not going to work if the medical profession discover the fountain of youth.)