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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Because if they last forever, they stifle creativity. We already have hundreds of young people saying “can I do this? Can I do that?” Well, what if every word written in the last 300 years was still under copyright? If you had to sift through everything to make sure you weren’t accidentally copying someone from ages ago.
Besides, is it really fair that someone gets money every year because their great-great grandmother wrote a book 200 years ago?
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