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[robkelk]

We have been over this repeatedly, depending on assumptions the ideal length of copyright for a book, from a purely economic perspective, is somewhere between 6 and 2 years. Current copyright tends to be upward from 80 years, which means that it is too long by an order of magnitude.

When was Watchmen published?
When was the Watchmen movie produced?
NOW! And this is the hard part:
How many years between these two events?

If Watchmen had fallen out of copyright earlier, would the movie have been made any faster? (I recall the biggest problem they had was in getting the rights to make the movie.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012