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[Philip Stewart <philstewart24@yahoo.com>]

I don't think this exactly correct. Works-for-hire, in
which a person writes on behalf of a corporation, have
a copyright duration of either 95 years from
publication or 120 years from their creation,
whichever is shorter. So really not much different in
practice than the "life of the author plus 70 years"
of an individually held copyright. The rights to an
individually held copyright are inheritable (I
believe) just as a corporation might be.

The vast majority of books and artwork, however, have
copyrights assigned directly to the author.

Note that any work published before 1963 without a
proper copyright notice entered public domain
immediately upon publication.

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> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:04:25 -0600
> From: "Dennis Norton"
> <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Patents for all?
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> Chris wrote "If you look inside books lately the
> copyright is not held by 
> the
> writer, but by a corporation (of the writer's
> ownership).  As corporations 
> are legal 'persons' but do
> not 'die' in the usual sense, does this mean the
> copyright is forever?"
> 
> 
> Yes, Chris, is does mean the copyright last forever,
> as long as the 
> corporation exists.  This assures the writer's
> estate will maintain the 
> copyright for future generations to receive any and
> all royalties due to the 
> copyright holder, particularly if there is some sort
> of sequel to their 
> original writing, such as "Gone with the Wind" and
> it's later sequel, etc. 
> It is a good tool especially for estate planning. 
> We have actually had the 
> orchard here put into a family trust so that the  it
> will be passed on to 
> future generations of the family.  It also shields
> those future generations 
> from estate/inheritance taxes.
> 
> 

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