Octavus Ars Scholae Palatinae
20y
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The root problem is copyright terms are much too long, they should be closer to 20 years. The purpose of copyright is to encourage new art but terms today are so long they do they exact opposite effect. There has never been any artist who created a piece of work because copyright terms are life + 70 years but that artist wouldn't have created the work if copyright was 30 years.

• Extending Copyright and the Constitution: 'Have I Stayed Too Long?
• A Reconsideration of Copyright's Term (PDF)
• The true impact of shorter and longer copyright durations: from authors’ earnings to cultural creativity and diversity (PDF)

  By exploring the true impact of different copyright
  durations, this paper scrutinizes why a longer duration does not improve the author’s earnings, and in fact, impedes cultural creativity and diversity

“…while cleaning up the construction mess, out of the corner of my eye there lied a small blue envelope that had most [likely] been dropped into the wall as the house was being built almost 100 years prior! It was a letter sent from a sister in Bantry, Ireland, to a man named Con Shea here in Casper, Wyoming.”

“It was a letter thanking Mr. Shea for a present he had sent to his family back home in Ireland,” Smith told the Daily Mail. “There was also some catching up and keeping him abreast of the goings on back there in Ireland.”

Smith did some research to learn more about the man who built the home, who “…had immigrated to the US, and had become a very successful sheep herder here in Wyoming,” Smith explained to the outlet.