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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
• Copyright duration may be too long, but contracts can be longer. In fact, in the absence of a law saying that "works must eventually go into public domain," there will be no reason why a work ever needs to go into public domain ever again. (Even if the publisher doesn't hold the rights indefinitely, the contract could specify 100 years for the publisher, and then rights return to the creator or his/her estate.)
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A very good argument indeed in a world where retroactive copyright extensions are as common as the common cold.
