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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by csnover on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:22PM (#23395075)
I assume you’re talking about the bible, which is obviously not copyrighted, so where does the idea comes from that nobody will continue to buy old content if it’s in the public domain?
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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by keiferski on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:49PM (#23395506)
Translations of the Bible are almost always copyrighted, unless it's the King James version, which IIRC isn't really that popular anymore. For that matter, all translations are copyrighted.
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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by cfmcdonald on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:44PM (#23396085)
The copyrighted translations are not thousands of years old, which kind of defeats the original point. I mean I understand it was a kind of exaggeration for effect, but excepting a very few 'evergreen' titles, the value of a publisher's back catalog tails off very rapidly with age.
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