Re: Copyright Extension

From: Lorraine Gehring <lgehring[_at_]mwtech.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 02:51:50 -0600

> Readers of this thread will no doubt take heart in the plight of the
> heirs of novelist Jane Austin, as described on the front page of today's
> Wall Street Journal. With tongue slightly in cheek, author Amy Stevens
> describes how "more than 100 people trace their ancestry to four
> brothers of Miss Austen, sho died a 41 year old spinster in 1817."
>
> We hear from Austen's 71 year old great-great-great-niece, the 24 year
> old great-great-grandson of Austens older brother Francis and the 46
> year old great-great-great-nephew about how they wish the family could
> share directly in Austen's commercial success. As one 51 year old
> great-great-great-nephew notes, "We'd all like to make some money from
> this."

Life plus 200? But that might not cover the great-great-great-great grandkids.

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