[m463]

I believe I read an article (by jerry pournelle?) where he was fine with copyright before 1976 - 28 years with a renewal for an additional 28 years. I believe the normal thing authors worked out was the publisher would get the first term, then the author could renew and get next 28 years.

That seems entirely reasonable to me.

[gcanyon]

28 years (+28) is better than now, but to my original point, in this era, hasn't Kim Stanley Robinson had enough time to monetize "Green Mars" (1994 Hugo award winner) by now -- at least enough to incentivize writing it in the first place?