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Old 06-22-2010, 12:37 PM   #21
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Why should they extend it? New works are entering into the public domain year on year all over the world in countries with a life + 70 copyright term. If M. Mouse & Co are the issue, why not simply grant a longer term for corporate copyright, and leave individual authors well alone? It's not been a problem in other countries.
I'd say it is better than 50:50 that anything published from say 1970 will never become public domain in the US.
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