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The Next Characters to Enter the Public Domain (www.visualcapitalist.com)
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[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

In any case it's not like after it expires you could not trade on being the original. It's not like others could then come along and claim to have been the original creator. And if you kept making works those would each get their own period of copyright.