Re: ELDRED

> Very large majority of authors and artists who are still alive do
> not obtain any substantial benefit from the decision.

Since the term of copyright already extended many years past the author's death, short of cryogenics or reincarnation, it's hard to imagine how a living artist could get any benefit from the decision.

Despite all the smoke blown, the CTEA is a giveaway to a small group of corporations and heirs who happen to have the rights to a handful of works from the 1920s that still are popular.

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