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Old 02-20-2023, 02:45 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Under the old US copyright system, Dahl’s children books would have already started coming into the public domain, at which point the original versions would be free and accessible. It’s an advantage of shorter copyright that hadn’t struck me before, that books would run out their copyright while sensibilities were relatively stable, before wholesale calls for rewriting. And in any case, people wouldn’t be limited by the secondary market if they wanted to access the original text.
But, when the copyright does expire it will be the original versions that will be public domain.
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