[kzrdude]

Copyright is a compromise between the creatives and the community. Sedlick has already received more than enough compensation and protection to enable this creation, and that was the point of copyright - to encourage the creation of new works, not to protect them in eternity.

The compromise has diminishing returns for providing protections and affordances on longer time scales, and 30 years is really pushing it.

[joe463369]

Do we know this? He's not even got a Wikipedia page. My understanding is that photographers earn peanuts and I for one would be raging if some Instragammer was coining it in from copying the one piece of work that made me famous.

[kzrdude]

I know that 30 years is enough time for the copyright limit I think is reasonable.

Also I hope he's doing fine with his client list https://sedlik.com/getinfo.htm