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Old 03-13-2010, 02:48 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by beppe View Post
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For instance, I love the early books of Lawrence Sanders. They do not exist anymore. I have a number of them in print, stacked away somewhere in the attic, to increase the entropy of the universe, and I would like so much to be able to re-read them for the nth time on the reader. May be my grand child will read them on MR in 50 years.
"The Anderson Tapes" by Sanders is a book that keeps walking through me mind over the decades. Anyone living in the UK should read it. Cameras everywhere.

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Italy has a standard "life + 70" copyright law, as do all EU countries, so consider the case of an author who wrote a book in 1868 when he was 20, and then went on to live to the age of 100. He would have died in 1948, and his book will be in copyright until 1st Jan 2019. Had said author died at the age of 90, however, his books will now be in the public domain.
I'm sorry, but a book that has been out of print for more than 20 years should no longer be copyrighted. I would not convict ANYONE of copyright violation in that case.
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