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A US cultural land grab enabled by millions of US$ spent by large US Corporations like Disney, to allegedly protect their assets. Like Steamboat Willy / Mickey Mouse.
Yet much of their success was built on adapting Public Domain texts. It's not about compensation for creators or their estates. It's Corporate greed and results in making much cultural heritage inaccessible as the large corporation with the rights hasn't the incentive to publish.
Even life plus 50 years was overgenerous. An author or publisher that disagrees can at least add a Copyright qualification: This work becomes Public Domain <x> years after the Author's death.
I think <x> should be from 20 to 50. No less or more. The 70 and 95 are obscene.
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