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Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo
IMHO, more books should be in the public domain. According to the following source works up to 1923 are currently in public domain in the US.
https://law.duke.edu/cspd/
I know it's not as simple as picking an arbitrary year but perhaps all books up to 1950 should be in public domain. To argue otherwise seems to be more in the interest of censorship ( i.e., making books less readily available) rather than profits. Thoughts? |
The old copyright scheme was reasonable, but then Disney Corp. and Sonny Bono got involved because of greed. Then US pushed for copyright extensions in other countries. Sad mess.