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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
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.
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Yes that was sort of the point. I enjoy and have enjoyed works based on things in the Public domain not just the public domain works themselves. The public domain mattered before I bought a kindle.
It even mattered in my classes. Not only can a teacher freely photocopy 30 copies of the raven when needed but more than a few assignments involve rewriting or adding to public domain works as a way of making sure students understood it along with a chance to flex a creative muscle or two.
I had to do such copyright unfriendly things as add a stanza of my own to the end of poems or add a scene to a play (fan fiction OMG!) I've had to paraprhase or modernize, heck in AP English I had to do crossovers and write interactions between characters in different works. The type of stuff control freaky modern copyright doesn't care for. Culteral and educational value.