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"As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the standard copyright term of life
plus 70 years makes no sense: a promise that they’ll be paid after their death
is unlike to stimulate extra creativity from artists. Conscious of how weak
this argument is as a justification for extremely long copyright, supporters
have come up with another argument. We need copyright to last well beyond the
life of the creator, they say, to encourage investment from publishers and
other companies to make older works available. Fortunately, this
“under-exploitation theory of copyright” is not just a matter of opinion, but
testable."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
