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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Copyright (in British law and tradition) is designed to provide an incentive for creators to create, so that there will be more creative works available to all once the copyright period has expired.
The availability of good works in the public domain is the entire point of having copyright laws.
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Precisely. The reason that the works of great writers like Dickens are now in the public domain is precisely because Dickens - a man who famously wrote purely to make as much money as possible - was encouraged to write by the existence of copyright laws.