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Old 05-05-2020, 12:33 PM   #200
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
(Since copyright is now assigned automatically—and who knows when this "Tex2002ans" person is going to die so I can count 70 years after that.)
Anonymous or pseudonymous works are another excellent reason to drop the entanglement of copyright length with the lifetime of the author.

If copyright only lasted 50 years after publication, we wouldn't need to know when Tex2020ans died. We'd only need to have a date of publication.
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