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DougBTX on Jan 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: "What Is the Chinese Economic Model?" author repor...

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Practically speaking, copyrights are perpetual in the US. If something is copyrighted for life plus 90 years, I'm not going to see anything made during my lifetime enter the public domain naturally.

shpxnvz on Jan 20, 2010 [–]

This is true, but it was not always the case. That copyrights last so long now is the result of change due to political pressure.

Even as recently as 1998 copyright was only authors life plus 50 years, and less before that.

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