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Originally Posted by petrucci
Clearly these older works have value.
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Then why are the vast majority of titles from the 1930's through 1950's, including National Book Award winners like
Personal History, out of print?
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The Personal History of Vincent Sheean being copyright encourages living authors to produce great works, as they do not have to compete with it being available at no cost.
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In the United States, it is available for free from most public libraries, at least on interlibrary loan. And if you don't mind misscans, it is at openlibrary.org.*
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Originally Posted by petrucci
With regards to the symphony orchestras, their economy has changed based on works being freely available. They cannot justify spending money on a work, when other works cost nothing.
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If you compare the health of classical music in Canada (shortest copyright allowed under Berne Convention) and the United States (among the longest copyright terms in the world), are they really different, and, if so, is it because of copyright?
Having said that, I don't think the music situation is really all that much similar to that of books.
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* May not be free and legal for everyone, but the home page reads for me: "The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is participating in our eBook lending program. Browse the growing lending library of over 200,000 eBooks!"