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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
well, i actually went into a lot more detail in my post number 441 of this thread about your first paragraph. as to the second, DaleDe has replied what i would have said, precisely ; that in fact, the majority of copyright works are NOT available at all, because they go quickly out of print, are not profitable enough (to the publishers) to justify a reprint, and are not available (very hard to find or even impossible) otherwise. does your public library have an edition of every single copyright work currently available ? does your local used book store ? even online some out of print but in copyright works can be incredibly hard to find and often exorbitantly priced. i was looking for years for a book i loved when a was a child ; i saw one copy (of a children's book !!!) on AbeBooks for over 40$. i finally did get it in an ebay auction with a lot of luck, for an amount i could reasonably pay, but as i said it took me years looking for it and i only found it because i was determined. someone who hadn't heard of it will likely never discover it at all, because they won't spend years looking for it, and it will eventually become completely forgotten. |
I agree with you here – and for the record, in many of my posts, I’m sort of acting as Satan’s advocate. I agree with some, but not all of what y’all have opined. I agree that older, out of print books should enter into the public domain, but in principle, I am against file-sharing of copyrighted material – mostly out of respect for the artist and his or her creations.