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Originally Posted by Iphinome
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.
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Most of that is protected as fair use, already.