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by hiddenkrypt 3535 days ago
That may have been an argument in setting the date, but Disney was the real driver of it. The reason it's 70 years after the death of the creator is because Mickey Mouse was in danger of becoming public domain again, so they added years to the law.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find any instances of people committing murder for IP reasons.