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Re:The US copyright office has struck down a major effort fo... by tmtvl on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:02PM (#42259737)
If it says 'for a limited time', then wouldn't tying itmto the lifetime of the author be unconstitutional? Because strictly speaking it's impossible to predict whether an author's life will end.
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Re:The US copyright office has struck down a major effort fo... by samatman on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:13PM (#42259835)
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.

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Re:The US copyright office has struck down a major effort fo... by tastyfreeze on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:39PM (#42260049)
Corporations can hold copyright and can be undying.
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Re:The US copyright office has struck down a major effort fo... by HWR_14 on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @05:01PM (#42260244)
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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Re:The US copyright office has struck down a major effort fo... by bitwize on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:22PM (#42259911)
Decided in Eldred v. Ashcroft. As long as Congress stipulates a non-infinite copyright term, it's constitutional. Given that the chance of a human being eventually ceasing to live has been 100% so far, it's legitimate to assume that life + n years is still a finite period of time.
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