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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
A craftsman does not have control over the use of his works after he's sold them. You don't get to sell a chair and say, "this chair cannot be used to make porn movies."
"Get people freebies" is not directly in society's interests. "Allow the pool of publicly-available arts, literature & scientific discovery to grow" is. Keeping a stranglehold on that growth for the profit of a few, most of which are big corporations, is not in society's interest.
I'll take seriously the yelling about "digital theft" when the retroactive changes to copyright law are reversed--and everything published in the US before 1978 gets put into the public domain. Extending copyright on existing works was mass theft from the public.
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No Elfwreck, only those before Dec 31, 1954. They were created under a maximum copyright of 56 years, we, the public, made that contract. We are required to honor it.