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It's been extended, regularly, several times. The recent 1976, 1998 have extended it massively (doubling it) and applying their extensions, retroactively much f
by njharman 9y ago
It's been extended, regularly, several times. The recent 1976, 1998 have extended it massively (doubling it) and applying their extensions, retroactively much further back.
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- 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.