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Originally Posted by Lemurion
What has the public domain to do with this situation?
The book in question won't enter the public domain for some ridiculous and ungodly number of years.
(Yes, I think copyright terms are far too long.)
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Kenny seems opposed to the whole idea of a public domain but simply put it matters more or it wouldn't exist. I didn't say it applies right this minute but if the public and the public domain didn't trump creators we'd still be paying royalties to estate of the brothers Grimm for every Cinderella story and much worse, the estate would be able to refuse license to any Cinderella story they didn't like or anything that seemed a bit Cinderella-esque. The freedom to bombard us with Ever After, Ella Enchanted, Maid in Manhattan, Walt Disney's Cinderalla and the hundreds of others out there simply matters more, and thus the copyrights expire. That was the point that kenny misses --you don't keep the rights forever (and life+70 is forever as far as I'm concerned since I'll be dead and so will anyone born today when the copyright on something new today expires.)