When a work is old enough to have aged poorly, it should be in the public domain, and then everyone could publish and read the version they prefer. Some of thos

When a work is old enough to have aged poorly, it should be in the public domain, and then everyone could publish and read the version they prefer. Some of those might be more interesting and popular than the original. Copyright that persists long after the death of the author makes no sense to society at large. It’s just another form of rent-seeking capitalism.