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Originally Posted by rcentros
If you want to make Tolkien's work Public Domain ... fine. Tell anyone who makes a derivative product from that world they can't sell it or profit from it — that their work is also in the public domain.
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You clearly misunderstand the copyright system. Creating a derivative work from public domain does not require the derivative work to be also in public domain. In fact, in the US the derivative work is automatically under copyright. And where do you get the mistaken idea from that you are not allowed to profit from public domain work? Of course you are allowed to profit from it.