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Do people in general value public domain books as highly as those in copyright? Seems not to me although I am sure many do.
My copyright reforms would be somewhat different.
1. A book must be made available to maintain a copyright. If it is not for sale for a period of (for example) 10 years te copyright expires.
2. A book must within a certain time be (again perhaps 10 years) made avaliable to libraries or the copyright expires.
I think authors heirs have a right to benefit as do people who have invested money in the work. But if they show no effort to do so then the copyright is benefitting no-one.
Helen
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