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