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Re:Does Andy Warhol get same copyright treatment as Google c... by Causality1 on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:10PM (#26919787)
The idea that someone who's been dead for thirty-four years and whose closest living relative is a grand-niece should have any legal standing in any regard is astoundingly perverse.
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Re:Does Andy Warhol get same copyright treatment as Google c... by exporectomy on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:19PM (#26921300)
It's perverse that property ownership changes hands when owners die? What you you propose instead? Allow nieces but not grand-nieces to own inherited copyrights? Copyright expires 33 years after death?
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Re:Does Andy Warhol get same copyright treatment as Google c... by Causality1 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:50AM (#26924826)
25 years seems a reasonable length of time for your dependents to grow up. Copyright is not property. Copyright is the government agreeing to arrest people for saying and doing the same things you said and did.
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Re:Does Andy Warhol get same copyright treatment as Google c... by thescriptkiddie on Saturday April 24, 2021 @01:10AM (#26922408)
> It's perverse that property ownership changes hands when owners die

Yes. 100% inheritance tax.

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