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You're not answering the question. How does it benefit society for the works of Shakespeare to be protected by copyright now, after hundreds of years?
by gorkonsine 9y ago
You're not answering the question. How does it benefit society for the works of Shakespeare to be protected by copyright now, after hundreds of years?
- sokoloff 9y agoThe reason you think I'm not answering the question is that I believe you have a faulty premise (that the works of Shakespeare are under copyright protection today). I believe they are not.
- gorkonsine 9y agoNow you're either missing the point, or being intentionally obtuse. No, the works of Shakespeare are not, but works that are 50 or 75 years old still are, even though everyone who wrote or created them are now dead. How is this useful to society? It's no different than if Shakespeare's works were still protected by copyright. And since we have now enacted perpetual copyright, nothing new will ever fall into the public domain from this point forward.