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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Also nobody should be allowed to make a profit of it after it entered the public domain because this is the only way to stop the publishers from making money of PD books.
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So you're saying that nobody should be allowed to publish authors like Shakespeare, or, indeed, perform Shakespeare plays and charge money for those performances?
. I'm probably missing something obvious, but it's not clear to me how society would benefit from this. Can you explain?
The whole point of the public domain is that it allows anybody to publish the work. What you're suggesting wouldn't benefit anyone - its sole effect would be to completely kill off the publication of all the great (and not so great) works which are in the public domain.
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We would have had that faster if there was no copyright protection.
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Where would have been the incentive for Christopher Tolkein (who was very likely the only one who could have done it) to edit and publish his father's unpublished work had he not been able to make a reasonable return from doing so? You say "we would have had that faster if there was no copyright protection". How would we? These were private papers that only the family had access to. How would we have had them faster?