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Originally Posted by Andybaby
Copyright should Expire Life+5 years, (that way to help the wife/husban out) or in the case if if the author has a child, Life+ until Youngest child Graduates college.
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Copyright duration should be based on the date of the individual book (as it was originally), not the life of the author. The amount of time should be what is required in order for the average work to turn a profit for the creator. That is all that is needed to "encourage the arts". If works are profitable, then artists will continue to produce, and thereby enrich the public domain. The whole "life +" BS is just greed/control on the part of the content industry, it has nothing to do with the original intent of copyright.