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GeoAtreides parent
Not sure why the amount of works in the public domain has any relevance to how long copyright protection is. Seems to me like they're two orthogonal issues.
mlrtime
Because every-time this comes up it is the same Mickey mouse complaints over and over. If you're young and your read this the first time I'm sure you're outraged.

Meanwhile there are 1000's of works that people are free to take. Better yet, there are 1000's of works that will be destroyed and not preserved that are open that should be preserved and used.

GeoAtreides OP
I'm not sure what the argument is here.

That because there's a large corpus of public domain works, then the long copyright protection is ok? That people want a short copyright protection because they're done with everything in the public domain?

Would that also imply that if the number of public domain works gets large enough, then the duration copyright protections should also increase?

zozbot234
Long copyright protection is not okay, but letting the huge corpus of existing public domain works languish in obscurity is not okay either; that does a lot more damage to our shared culture, and in a way that's even quite easy to address. But the damage done by keeping works in copyright is easier to see than the damage done by not making remarkably similar works accessible at all.
BriggyDwiggs42
It doesn’t do more damage though. Our shared culture is like 99% copyrighted media for a variety of reasons. In books for example, the language becomes harder to read, and while many things remain constant across time, old works can become outdated and not address issues relevant today.
mlrtime
I think it's selective outrage and people really don't care what happens to Micky Mouse.

I'm not a fan of Disney, but I don't think my life would be better if we saw a bunch of clones from China because it's now "public domain".

hulitu
> Meanwhile there are 1000's of works that people are free to take.

Yeah, if you know where they are. Where can I download a public domain, silent movie ?

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