One aspect of having the copyright law increase the time after the author's death is that it creates a shadow during which nothing enters the public domain. In

One aspect of having the copyright law increase the time after the author's death is that it creates a shadow during which nothing enters the public domain. In France, we are still in a shadow. I made a graph of all shadows that ever existed in France: http://espadrine.tumblr.com/post/136054168016/public-domain-shadow http://espadrine.tumblr.com/post/136054168016/public-domain-....