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Originally Posted by HarryT
So it's not so much whether "free" access to Dickens and Shakespeare is beneficial - it's more a case of is it better to have them publish than keep all their work "secret" and have nobody else ever see it?
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Isn't there a case for saying the current copyright arrangements will condemn a lot of books to oblivion?
There won't be any commercial reason to preserve them, by the time copyright expires they'll be forgotten.
Who knows what's already been lost?