Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Ah, that is a fair point. Especially since a lot of great work in many areas has been done late in life. So I guess their needs to be some extension beyond the lifetime.
The 28 with extension idea sounds like a good one. But I wouldn't limit to one extension. If you publish a hit book at 20, extend at 28, you should be able to extend again at 56 if you're still alive etc.
So I'd say unlimited 28 year extensions during the person's life time, rather than doing 50 years or 75 years after death etc.
Then at most you've got 28 years after death if they die right after an extension, and many will be shorter as they die in the middle of an extension.
The 28 years is arbitrary as well, you could do something shorter like 15 and just require more frequent extensions--which would get stuff in the public domain much quicker after death of the content holder.
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