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Always42 an hour ago

This would create incentive to kill people

ktm5j an hour ago | parent | next [-]

So does life insurance.. but we still have that.

weberer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would change it to "the expected natural life of the author" which is their birthday + 85 years. Regardless of whether they actually are still alive past that date.

AussieWog93 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

So if an 86 year old writes a book they can't copyright it?

giancarlostoro 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I would accept that as well, but crank it down to like 62 years since their date of birth, presumably by the time they would retire.

inferniac an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

not really, when copyright disappears, so does the profit motive

sure, you don't have to pay royalties, but any other publisher can now publish too

cindyllm 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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