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Old 04-02-2011, 05:20 AM   #16
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Personally, I'd like to see a 20 year window on copyright from the date of creation/publication and automatic transfer to public domain UNLESS the owner of the creation renews with a national registry ... for 20 year terms and a maximum of two renewals.
I'd like to see a return to the good old days when there were only a handful of hand-copied versions of each book, all chained to the desk. Readers would have to take holy orders before they were allowed to open the covers.
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Old 04-02-2011, 06:05 AM   #17
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Personally, I'd like to see a 20 year window on copyright from the date of creation/publication and automatic transfer to public domain UNLESS the owner of the creation renews with a national registry ...
And I'd like to see world peace.

Sadly, neither is going to happen.
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Old 04-02-2011, 07:50 PM   #18
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Old 04-03-2011, 05:26 AM   #19
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Wouldn't work. What would there be to stop someone from memorising those books and retelling them to all their friends? It sounds like legalised murder to me.

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It varies with the jurisdiction. Here's a reasonably complete table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...pyright_length


Algeria Life + 50 years (except posthumous work)
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In most western countries, a copyrighted work enter the public domain at the start of the year following the 70th anniversary of the author's death. Eg, if you were to die today, anything you'd written would remain protected by copyright until 1st Jan 2082.

In a few countries (eg Canada), the period is 50 years after the author's death.

In a VERY few countries, it's different. Eg, Mexico has a copyright period of life + 100 years.
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