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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by bobthepanda on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:16PM (#23002964)
The reason why +years exists is mostly for the case of inventors who die prematurely, so that their family can still reap the benefits. It's the same reason why widows can collect their partners' pensions.
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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:33AM (#23005246)
No, that's not it. The reason is that Disney lobbied to have the copyright term extended to prevent Mickey Mouse entering the public domain. This is despite that Disney was essentially built on public domain works.

This isn't how copyright was meant to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#S...

CGP Grey on copyright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4

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