Thread: Copyfraud - public domain's fate?
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Old 12-07-2010, 02:58 PM   #157
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
So you think that nobody should be permitted to publish authors like, say, Dickens or Shakespeare simply because they are in the public domain?
Hmmm . . . good point. Orchestras can still play classical music and make money from it.

I need to think about this some more. I know that I don't think it's right that people take work from the Gutenberg project and profit off of it. But right/legal/reality are all different things, aren't they?
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