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		samatman 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The US copyright office has struck down a major ef... It's in fact trivially easy to predict whether an author's life will end. Watch: I predict an author's life will end. I give it very high odds indeed.

tastyfreeze 10 months ago [–]

Corporations can hold copyright and can be undying.

HWR_14 10 months ago | [–]

If the author is a real person, it's life of the author plus. If it is a corporation it is a fixed amount of time.

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