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Originally Posted by crich70
Ah but when things go out of copyright then people can create new works based on the old ones. So you have a book like Le Morte D'Arthur (written long before copyright laws) and you have other books and later movies based on Arthurian legend. Books and movies you wouldn't have if the book was still considered under a copyright.
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And Le Morte d'Arthur was a compilation of older verse romances, whose authors' heirs would have sued Malory and Caxton's codpieces off if they'd had eternal copyright.