So, if copyright laws are
for the life of the
owner plus fifty years, and Amazon and other e-book retailers must provide copies of them forever, and 49 years after an author's death, their books suddenly become branded as «important literary works» by history or literature professors
for studying our era, and the sales dramatically
spike of that author's books, and those
new readers are in their 20's, with a potential lifespan in their 100's....