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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Who owes Shakespear works? Who owes brothers Grimm stories? Who owes owes ancient Greek mythology?
Once works are old enough, nobody owes them, they become common cultural heritage of everyone.
And you know, artists, writers and songwriters aren’t born in isolation. They learn and are influenced by those before them. There is really no such thing as 100% original work, the artist adds something original of their own, but the bulk of it… Oil paintings and portraits were all the rage long before da Vinci came along and started work on Mona Lisa.
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