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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
How? How has our culture suffered as a result of other people’s works not being free? I’m not trying to be a pain in the arse, but it’s one of those frequently made statements that really cannot be qualified – imo.
Sure, why not? How are you, or society in general, harmed by some now sort of obscure author continuing to profit from his or her work 60 years after publication? The work is available for sale, in libraries at no charge, at used books stores, etc – it’s not as if you wont have access to it until the copyright runs out.
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Actually most copyrighted books are not available at all except perhaps in used book stores. One statistic says that of the 7 million texts, 1 million are available for purchase, one million are available in PD and 5 million are still under copyright but no longer available from a publisher at all.
Dale