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Originally Posted by Pardoz
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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Just to be a pedant, what I actually asked in this poll was about the moral question - not what was legal or what people actually do - so I was surprised that people didn't think it OK, in a moral sense, to make a copy when the author was dead.
It's an interesting reason to pay for such content to encourage the current copyright holders to publish more of their back catalogue. I'm a bit skeptical about the extent to which that works, but if it did work, it strikes me as a good reason.