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Everything published prior to 1928 is in the public domain. Reducing copyright terms or eliminating copyright would have no effect on those works. So, either yo
by eurleif 3y ago
Everything published prior to 1928 is in the public domain. Reducing copyright terms or eliminating copyright would have no effect on those works. So, either your argument is self-defeating, or losing access to works published in 1928 and later would impact QOL. It seems there must be a cutoff point, sometime between 1928 and 2023, where the QOL impact of new works ceased. Why is that -- what changed?
And, once we find the cutoff point, can we make copyright terms for works published after that point infinite, since you don't need them for QOL anyway?