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Originally Posted by leebase
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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You keep asserting that no one needs fiction or public domain with no argument to back it up other than your assertion. Yet, both fiction and the PD, i.e. the idea that one may copy existing stories or use those stories as the starting point for new stories, for all of recorded history and most likely has existed for much longer than that. Mankind has always had story tellers, even if it was just the old man by the well telling stories to the village children. Why do you think it still exists if there is no purpose or need?
Tell you what, try reading the two books that I listed. The Boyle book especially goes into why PD and creative commons is a good thing.