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Originally Posted by BookCat
Personally, I think it's fair to the author, descendants and readers of the future, for international copyright to be death of the author+50 whether or not the work was published during the author's lifetime.
Unattributed works should be copyright from the estimated time of authorship+70 which would more or less amount to the same time as a work of known authorship.
That's my pennyworth!
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The issue of royalties for unattributed works was overlooked when I wrote this. Perhaps the royalties could go to libraries, or to fund a literary bursary or prize.
The general idea in the quote above is to simplify the issue of copyright. Right now the law is a self-contradictory mess.