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Originally Posted by hildea
A question to those of you who are in favour of eternal copyright:
Do you think it would be a good thing if Mobileread library and Gutenberg would have to delete almost all its works? (This would, obviously, happen if copyright law was changed the way you want.)
Or do you think that it would be regrettable, but that the upsides (which are still pretty unclear to me) make it worth it?
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How do you go back and copyright everything currently in the public domain? For example, who gets the copyright for Beowulf or Chaucer?
Unless it can be done in an equitable manner, I'm not in favor of re-establishing copyright for past works.