I'm not sure if anyone will really understand the ramifications of overly aggressive copyright. Methinks, 20yrs is far too long to prevent works from going into the public domain. In most cases, books older than 20yrs are so obscure, it would to the author good to have them digitized and indexed by Google's powerful Linux servers. Hell, it will boost the sales of some of these supposed lost titles, as most people are more likely to read the printed text. E-books really haven't captured the imagination of the masses yet.
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I heard Lawrence Lessig speak last week and he said that most books from before 2003 were out of print. Like Tim O'Reilly said, "obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement."
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I'm familiar with Lessig's work. The Free Culture talk was quite profound. I do hope that people understand that allowing the reprint of books also serves to dismantle the 'knowledge' divide. Providing access to under served students and others in developing nations.