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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Anyway, one way in which they benefit extraordinarily (that is, compared to just about any other industry) from their copyrights is that, because they have eternal copyright on the products they sell, they can keep collecting money forever from the few books which keep selling, and they have a guaranteed minimum income.
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A long time - yes. Forever - no. Eg, from this year, anyone in a "life + 50" country, such as Canada, can freely produce their own edition of Raymond Chandler's books and sell them. In "life + 70" countries (ie pretty much everywhere in the world), anyone is free to sell "Sherlock Holmes" books. Both popular works, by any definition.
I know that copyright might
seem to be "eternal" from the point of view of the individual, but it honestly isn't
.