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Less than 10 years is too little, yes. Let me play devil's advocate here for a second. Why do we have copyright at all? Because the creators of content should be given an incentive to create, they should be able to live off their work without being ripped off left and right. Makes sense, doesn't it?
You write a book, you get exclusive rights to that book, sell it to a publisher, people buy it. Everybody's happy. Now, let's consider the duration of said period of protection. For those who don't know, it's currentliy life + 70 years (!) in most jurisdictions.
Do you really think people would be creating less if their exclusivity rights expired, say, 10 years after their death? Or even with their death? Heck, what about 25-30 years after creation? The current situation only serves big corporations, perhaps the heirs of creative people, but rarely the artists themselves. Discuss.
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