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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, Bob, but I'm obviously missing the crux of your argument. Why do you want the law to encourage people to try to extract every bit of possible compensation that they can? Your "Type 2" people sound a lot nicer to me than the "Type 1"s!
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Oops... you're right. Of course, I meant Type 2 is better, and we shouldn't. To me, that corresponds to shorter copyright lengths.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Come on, an author is surely entitled to receive income from their works for their entire lifetime, at least? It's the long "after death" period that's really the issue, and that, as you know, is being driven (in the US at least) by political lobbyists who are trying to protect the commercial interests of large companies like Disney.
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I think this is a fallacy to think that an author deserves protection for a lifetime. What is the fundamental reason that they should have more than even 5 years? The original purpose was to benefit society, not to protect the author. It was to encourage publication of books at a time when it was expensive to do so.
But even if we changed the law to be a term of life, that would be solve most of the problem in my mind, and would be much more reasonable.