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My vote was "Some fixed length, or the lifetime of the author, whichever is longer".
I'd think I'd now vote for a simple "Some fixed length" as that future-proofs it as lifetimes increase.
Copyright , IMO, should be long enough for the author to gain a significant proportion of the revenues that will come in from the creation, but not so long that people who come across it in their youth can't base works on it in their late middle age.
So I'd go for 50 years for the fixed length from publication. So yes, I think that anything published before 1970 should now be in the public domain. And I think that everyone (except large corporations who have bought up copyright) would benefit from this change. ESPECIALLY that vast majority of creative people.
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