I am definitely not in favor of reducing copyright terms to 30 years, though life+70 is generally too long. Life+30 intuitively feels useful and correct. At any rate, nobody should be talking about reducing copyright terms until land can go public much more easily than it does.
"Long copyright terms + expansive fair use" really does seem like the consensus, such as it is, of what everyone thinks the law currently says and what most ordinary people think it should say
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The problem is as soon as you specifically try to define fair use you open what appears to be a can of worms but is actually a portable gateway to the Nether Realm of Ravenous Worms Beyond Number
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But if you ask most people what they think I think you'd get a consensus that "You should be able to do anything you want with a book right away as long as you're not cheating the author's right to make a living from it, which they should have as long as humanly possible"
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