All creations are a product of the culture they are produced in. Originality is an illusion in this sense. What suffering occurs, exactly, when works enter the

All creations are a product of the culture they are produced in. Originality is an illusion in this sense. What suffering occurs, exactly, when works enter the public domain? The public domain does not prevent works from being sold, for example. The author of a work loses exclusivity but he does not lose the right to benefit from the work. A big problem with copyright is the name - it sounds like it concerns a "right" when in fact it is a privilege granted (in the US) by the Constitution. To quote the FSF, if copyright were a right, "nothing could justify terminating this right after a certain period of time".