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Originally Posted by H-P
This is unfair, because a publisher which work in this book industry can't pay salary, tax,...to create ebooks publications and stay in competition with someone who's pay nothing by using this kind of work.
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On further consideration, I see your point and, of course, you're completely right.
Similarly, Disney should not have made any of those cartoons based on out-of-copyright fairy tales. Clearly they were taking work away from story tellers.
And no-one should be making things based on expired patents. It's just wrong for them to make money from something that someone else created a few decades ago, when there are inventors still around, needing people to use and pay for their ideas so that they can pay their mortgages.
[In case it's not obvious, this is sarcasm. Copyright is a quid-pro-quo. Society grants copyright in exchange for free use of the material when copyright expires.]