Originally Posted by bill_mchale
My only thought on this is that 50 years without any form of registration allows lots of works to be lost. Most works are on the shelves for at best a few years before they are replaced with newer works. 50 years is a term that is designed to protect that small minority of authors who have works remain in print for extended periods of time. I seems to me that a book that has been out of print for 45 years by the time the copyright expires is a book that might be lost before it can enter the public domain.
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Bill
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