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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
Something I hadn't thought of when I initially posted on this topic is that it it would also make it easy to determine copyright for non-book publications, like newspapers and magazines. With this rule, if a magazine/newspaper was released in 1946 the entire newspaper/magazine would go into the public domain on 1 January 2048. Making death of the writer a factor in determining copyright would create the situation where some parts of a magazine/newspaper are in copyright while other parts are not.
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The problem with that is reprinted content. Would the copyright run from the date of the first publication of a piece or the date of the current issue? That could get messy.