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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
It's A Wonderful Life was languishing in obscurity until it fell into US public domain. After it fell into PD and started being shown every Christmas, it became very popular. (To the point of the original copyright owner finding an excuse to pull it back out of PD.)
How many other obscure movies/acts might have the same thing happen to them?
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A few years ago, I ran into a seminary professor, who was surprised at how many students were citing 18th, 19th, and early 20th century books, rather than "current" works. The students were running to Google Books, and the Internet Archive, looking for references to support their position.
I don't remember the title of the 18th century book that is utterly despised by most professors of theology, that is one of the five most cited works, in papers written by undergraduate theology students.
The reason it is cited so much, is that it is on either Google Books or Internet Archive, and "looks like it is theologically reliable".
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