Copyright is supposed to be about ensure that novel stuff appears and is used. Therefore surely Copyright should only apply to really new stuff and that older stuff should lose its protection.
Otherwise there will be an incentive to constantly rehash old stuff rather than concentrating on producing stuff that is new.
No more than a decade after a creation or a couple of years after first commercial exploitation I would say.
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Copyright is supposed to be about ensure that novel stuff appears and is used. Therefore surely Copyright should only apply to really new stuff and that older stuff should lose its protection.
Otherwise there will be an incentive to constantly rehash old stuff rather than concentrating on producing stuff that is new.
No more than a decade after a creation or a couple of years after first commercial exploitation I would say.
Then the whole argument becomes moot.