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[Page] 199 [My Comments] And no one does. The term of protection (just as the protection itself) is not about incentivising creativity, it’s about recognizing the right of the creator to deal with the results of their work as they please. [Quote from Patry’s book] 
The argument is that the author will calculate in 2011 that a copyright that lasts until 2101 is not a sufficient incentive to create, and that only if copyright lasts until 2121 will he or she create in 2011. No one should believe that.
How Not To Fix Copyright - My Response to William Patry - Socialist copyright law - Soviet Union | Mincov Law Blog
Quote from Patry’s book