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Originally it was 14 years. It's only been extended (gradually) over the past 50 or so.
by rabidrat 9y ago
Originally it was 14 years. It's only been extended (gradually) over the past 50 or so.
- njharman 9y agoIt's been extended, regularly, several times. The recent 1976, 1998 have extended it massively (doubling it) and applying their extensions, retroactively much further back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Bell%27s_graph_showing_extension_of_U.S._copyright_term_over_time.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Bell%27s_graph_showin...
- ataturk 9y agoThe 1998 one was particularly egregious--we were right on the verge of having some decent content in the public domain and wham! It's not that I think everything should be public domain, but the current duration is absurd.