Re: excessive copyright duration?
"If the book,program, magazine, DVD, CD etc is out of print for maybe 5 years, then the copyright should revert to the author(s), or if that's inappropriate, then public domain."
Have you ever wondered how some shops seem to have a permanent sale? They sell goods at full price for the legal minimum time in one shop so as to be able to claim 50% discount later in all the other shops. I can just imagine a "Copyrights'R'Us" warehouse in the middle of nowhere with a huge stock consisting of one single copy each of books, films etc "made available" to the public for purchase. If they can find the place.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
