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The public domain is not taking anything away from authors. The public domain is the default state, everything was public domain until copyright was invented. Copyright is a government granted monopoly on copying for a limited period of time. In exchange, the works eventually enter the public domain. It is no different than patents. If you don't like the deal that patents give, you're free to keep your technology a trade secret, it's the then up to you to keep it secret, if it gets out you have no protection. If you don't like the deal that copyright gives you, feel free not to accept it. Maybe you'll come up with an unbreakable DRM, right about the time a square circle is created.
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