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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
In fact I think that most works are available that have not been physically obliterated. The fact that you may have to hunt them down and/or pay a hefty price for them does not make them unavailable, nor does the fact that you may have to travel to a museum or another country to see them make them unavailable. You or I may not want to pay the asking price or be unable to, but this only makes them unobtainable by us.
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They are unavailable with respect to the availability goal with copyright. The goal is to make thing being present in the culture. It is not enough that one copy exist somewhere in the world.