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Originally Posted by Iphinome
It mattered because before I had a kindle I enjoyed plays like Rent, and movies based on old stories. How many film versions of Cinderella come out per year? Heck my own dvd collection has Ella Enchanted, Ever After and the Princess Diaries. And two version of Les Miserables.
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One reason that Shakespeare is performed so often is that it is in the public domain, so no one has to pay to perform it. Anyone who goes to see Shakespeare in the park is benefiting from the public domain.
Cinderella is constantly being remade and reimagined. It it wasn't for the public domain, this wouldn't be possible. Cinderella would only ever be what the original work was.