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Originally Posted by leebase
The only people affected are those wanting to publish or copy actual Macbeth.
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(Or, pertinently to plays, perform Macbeth[1])
Back to the point of copyright in the first place: How does that benefit society?
There is a clear detriment to society, in having to pay more and restricting access, so where is the outweighing improvement?
Is someone really more likely to create a work because their descendants could still profit from it 400 years after their death rather than only 70 years after?
[1] eg for US copyright:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106
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...owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following...in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
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