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Originally Posted by hildea
I picked "The lifetime of the author, plus a number of years", but even better would be 80 (or thereabouts) years after the birth of the author. That would ensure income for dependents of the author even if the author dies young. And in those (rare?) cases when it's difficult to determine who the author is or when they died, it defaults easily to at the latest 80 years after publication.
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80 years after birth would not work. The author could be over 80 or close to 80. 80 year after first copyright would work. So once it's copyright, 80 years later, it's in the public domain.