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Now, I once proposed this in a panel where the other people were all writers. And one of them said: &ldquo;Ten year copyright? Why that's ridiculous! Anything more than five years is intolerable.&rdquo; He was an awardwinning science fiction writer who was complaining about the difficulty of retrouving, of pulling back, this is funny, French words are leaking into my English, of, of regaining the rights from the publisher who'd let his books go out of print for practical purposes but was dragging his heels about obeying the contract, which says that when the book is out of print the rights revert to the author.