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Originally Posted by teh603
There's some "public" records that states charge tens of thousands of dollars for access to. By comparison, a trip to London might cost me only a few hundred bucks.
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Your point is that it could be worse, but the question is: Is what we have now good enough? It is if the only criterion is to make sure that the book doesn't entirely disappear from the world. However, having a book in the LOC doesn't make it relevant in the country's culture. The fact that so many books are now kept out of the culture by copyright says to me that the terms are out of balance. This artificial scarcity of cheap older books is beneficial to those selling new books, so extending the length of terms isn't just about keeping Mickey in copyright.