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juliusdavies
on May 9, 2023
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Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroyin...
I think the law in the USA is that copyright is maintained until 70 years after the death of the writer/composer (unless it was a work-for-hire). So just another 31 years to go here (2054) assuming Marvin Gaye was the sole author.
atq2119
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The parent comment is surely well aware of that. They were speaking normatively (what should be) rather than descriptively (what is).
xp84
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Except it’s infinite because Disney lobbyists. Not that someone else wouldn’t do it if they weren’t.
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