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Comment by Dylan16807

3 years ago

> And I want the world (or EU, then others to follow suit) to slowly reduce copyright to 0 years* after artists death if owned by a person, and 20-30 years max if owned by a corporation.

Why death at all?

It's icky to trigger soon after death, it's bad to have copyright vary so much based on author age, and it's bad for many works to still have huge copyright lengths.

It's perfectly fine to let copyright expire during the author's life. 20-30 years for everything.