Thread: What are your views on illegal copying?
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Old 02-22-2010, 09:33 AM   #279
Pardoz
Which side are you on?
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
But if the copyright rules would be Death of the Author + 0, there wouldn't be an estate and the books would be in public domain. So, the backlist would be freely available.
Oh, absolutely, and if it were still publication+14 years there would be even more backlist available in the public domain. "How long should copyright last" is a different question than "Why didn't some people vote 'copying is okay if the author is dead' in the poll?"

I was just giving my reasons why "This author is only standing because his feet are nailed to the perch" doesn't impact my decision to buy one way or another under the current regime, since Ben Thornton wondered aloud up-thread why people had voted that way.
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