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Originally Posted by nekokami
I also don't believe that protecting the copyright of a work that has been allowed to fall out of print benefits any of these groups, or represents the most common moral position.
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I was in complete agreement up until this one. There may be reasons for a book being out of print other than publisher neglect, like a limited edition chapbook, for instance. Also, the point at which a book goes out of print is generally when, in current contracts, the author can regain publishing rights to the work. That would be the exact wrong time to force an end of copyright protection.
I don't think society gains anything from an OOP cutoff that it doesn't already get from a fixed (shorter-than-now) span of time.