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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Who is going to pay the translator of a PD work? If they can't get a copyright on it, no one will pay for what they can legally copy. If the work is PD then the original author/publisher will not pay for a translation because under your scheme the translation will also be PD since it keeps the original's copyright period.
BOb
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Why you still find PD works in original languages in the bookstores?
Even as ebooks?
Why they're not vanished?
The answer is exactly the same.