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Old 05-03-2009, 08:49 AM   #94
Krystian Galaj
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Originally Posted by GeoffC View Post
Ah ! ...

But in a previous discussion on copyright, I also make the point that a 'normal' working life is 35-45 years before retirement - therefore copyright should be of the same length of time....
Current copyright terms may have nothing to do with making a living, but nonetheless for many artists that is the only way they can live....
In every set of laws and conditions there will be people who would fill any business model made feasible by this set of laws. Copyright makes it possible to make writing more profitable than it would otherwise be, allowing some people to make a living out of it and, as has been mentioned before, sometimes make enough money that it stops promoting creativity and dampens it (and in the authors, whose works are most treasured, too).
Making copyright period shorter would certainly change conditions, make some authors currently making a living out of it stop writing, but at the same time possibly make some authors who no longer needed to write start writing again. Which authors the society wants more?

Using some idealized model of author who can make a living only by writing and selling their works is too simple a model and can lead to very false conclusions. As is assumming that all that average author wants to do with his income is to leave it to his children.
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