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Originally Posted by Jacques Q.
... it is beyond my understanding that a book published, say, when a writer is 25, who then dies at age 90, will remain protected by copyright way, way over a century after initial publication (with inheritors often doing all kind of sh*t with it at that), it just makes no sense.
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Because publishers and authors' estates that keep the dead authors' work in print deserve compensation too. Otherwise those books would cease to exist.