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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
Schopenhauer died in 1860, so everything he wrote is PD, and assuming his works had all been translated by 1922, have English translations at PG, too. Wittgenstein's one non-posthumous work was published in 1921, so it's PD in US and life+50 countries (2022 pretty much everywhere), although it looks like either no English translation occurred in 1923, or nobody's provided it to PG yet. Camus wrote all of his works in 1935 or later, so they won't be showing up at PG until the 2040s or later, although he's PD in Canada and other life+50 countries now, and in 2031 pretty much elsewhere. Sartre started writing in the late 1930s and died in 1980, so his works will be the last of these 4 to reach PD status, in the 2040s and later (assuming Canada capitulates and goes to life+70 too).
It's hard to say why there are not many downloads of Schopenhauer from PG. Perhaps he's not taught in English speaking colleges and universities very often, or when he is, the professors require specific translations which are not intellectual property.
Even though it's not PD, Internet Archive has a English translation of "No Exit", and it's had about 147 thousand downloads since it was uploaded in 2011. Perhaps it's more popular because it's taught in English-speaking schools? Sartre was an only child, and didn't have any kids, he had been in a long term relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. His literary estate went to her and after her death went to her adopted daughter, so she's probably missing out on at least $150,000, assuming that US royalties would run about $1 per copy. Should you care whether an unrelated person who I suspect got adopted by his partner shortly before or after his death (although he probably knew her for 20 years) is getting income from it 40 years after his death? My guess is that most of those 147k people don't care, even if leebase does. For the record, I'm probably one of the 147k downloads because I was searching for "No Exit" on Google, saw it was on IA, and was expecting the link to go to the overview showing the metadata (like download count) instead of the actual text. I read the first paragraph. I don't care.
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Thanks for information. So people not related to Sartre would theoretically get the profits if "No Exit" if it was not in the internet archive. That is not a good argument for PD having a seemingly arbitrary time limit for all works generally.
Anyway, about Schopenhauer. Most people don't understand the path he took they understand Hegel more. Prussia was the first nation state to implement compulsary public education with the motive of creating sheeple that all thought alike on important issues and topics in the interest of the rulers of the state. Hegel was the head of this and Schopenhauer was his arch enemy. Schopenhauer said this of Hegel :
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Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense. This nonsense has been noisily proclaimed as immortal wisdom by mercenary followers and readily accepted as such by all fools, who thus joined into as perfect a chorus of admiration as had ever been heard before.
The extensive field of spiritual influence with which Hegel was furnished by those in power has enabled him to achieve the intellectual corruption of an whole generation."
- The World as Will and Idea, vol. 2 (1844)
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But the height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously been known only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most barefaced general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, and will remain as a monument to German stupidity. "
- The World as Will and Idea, vol. 2 (1844)
Anyway, American universities are dominated by liberals and socialists hate Schopenhauer so he is not taught in America. Americans are fond of quoting Jefferson but we live in Hamilton's country and I would say we live in a Hegelian-Hamiltonian Federalist Oligarchy Tyranny.