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Nobody has put forth the societal good of fiction. I have distinguished fiction from inventions, medicines and the like where there is a societal good.
Nobody needs public domain fiction. There is no limit to the imagination. Can’t copy Superman? Then write about Fantastic man! Or Super Woman. Or Alien baby man. Better yet, come up with more original story and move fiction forward.
You can write Macbeth today....actual Macbeth. But so many stories and movies are actually Macbeth anyway....in ways that would still be ok if the Shakespeare estate had an infinite copyright.
There is no harm to society whatsoever to not be able to plunder the rights of artists. There is clearly a harm to be had for the rights holders.
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