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Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by jacquesm on Thursday April 02, 2015 @08:13PM (#9313922)
The historical way lots of content came into the public domain is death.

That's why plenty of artists - plenty of nature photographers among them - died relatively penniless.

http://europeansectionlgm.typepad.fr/photography_and_cinemat...

That's a friend of mine who died 3 years ago, he made the most amazing pictures. 50,000 of them in a archive in his home in Suprasl, and we can't even find the funds to properly digitize them so they will likely be lost sooner or later.

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Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by ta0967 on Friday April 03, 2015 @08:07AM (#9315395)
The historical way lots of content came into the public domain is death.

That's why plenty of artists [...] died relatively penniless.

can you expand on this? how does lifelong copyright cause artist poverty? i'm not signalling either dis- or agreement, but your claim needs to be substantiated.

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