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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Do people in general value public domain books as highly as those in copyright? Seems not to me although I am sure many do.
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Many of the most beloved classics are in the public domain. If copyright is eternal, books die, they will simply disappear into limbo. An obscure public domain book might be rediscovered, but a book that sits in an eternal limbo will not.
One major reason that so many groups do Shakespeare's plays is that they are in the public domain. Shakespeare may very well have been utterly forgotten were it not for the public domain.