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> the majority of the benefit to society is gained simply by its publication and broad distribution. You just made the perfect argument for a robust public dom

• simonh 7y ago
  Being in the public domain doesn’t automatically mean material is published, promoted and distributed. Those activities take a lot of effort, they are full time jobs for an entire industry, and they are the only way martial gets to be widely read. I love project Gutenberg, I have several of its books on my iPad right now, but a single book shop selling copyright works probably does more in a week to promote actually reading stuff than Gutenberg does in a year.