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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The harm is that the Public Domain no longer has a legal standing in the US. Any Public Domain Item can now be taken out of Public Domain and granted to anybody by act of Congress. It is <not> limited to pre-Berne differences. Anything is now fair game, without recourse.
I think that is a major harm. Your mileage may vary...
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But, as you pointed out yourself, this is something that's happened in other countries too, such as the UK and Australia, and it really hasn't been a forerunner of the collapse of civilization. A few people may have been inconvenienced by it in a minor way; that's the extent of it.