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Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain by marcosdumay on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:08PM (#22439688)
On the other hand, the more valuable content can in commercial use for longer.

It is as large an obstacle to the hoarding and disappearing of content corporations do today as any alternative, so I'd go for the easiest, whatever that is.

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Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain by derekp7 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:38PM (#22440317)
I think the argument is that a corporate entity would be willing to lose a large amount of money by extending copyrights on their back catalog, if only to keep those works from competing with their current offerings that make them loads of money.
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Re:Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain by TeMPOraL on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:55AM (#22441231)
A strong enough exponent, and the costs of holding the old works back would very quickly eclipse the protected profits.
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