"But you do understand that the copyright law's intent is to encourage the creation of new works. With life plus 50 years, there are untold numbers of authors dead only 10 or 20 years who might be willing to rise and take a crack at just one more novel."
A recent comment by PPH on slashdot that i liked.
Source: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1212401&cid=27725525