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Originally Posted by Hellmark
People sell public domain and CC stuff now. Look at B&N in the "Nook Classics" section. Lots of books for sale, despite all being public domain. They get sales off it from people who don't know any better.
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Well, where else would you get them? Just because they're in the public domain doesn't mean the public has access to them, especially in the days before the internet became as big as it is today. My dad still has some photocopies of ancient and out-of-print public domain books that I have no idea where he got, but he'd buy them in a heartbeat if they were to come back into print or be available as ebooks.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I was going to say that they are too dismissive of the orphan works problem, but a return to 20 year copyright would pretty much obsolete the concept of orphaned works.
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I'll be honest, either a 20-year rule or a use-it-or-lose-it rule would work wonders for keeping things available to the reader.