It’s always been curios to me that the author or inventor or artist doesn’t own the rights to their work for all time. Why do these things expire?
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It may be easier if you reconsider the phrasing.
What expires is not ownership of the idea, but the government preventing other people from using your idea without your permission.
It’s not as if 70 years after Shakespeare’s death, everyone started to claim they wrote King Lear, but the state stopped enforcing the exclusivity of the work.
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