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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by vineyardmike on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @06:16PM (#29479397)
I think this could have lots of side affects (even though i agree that copyrights have some negative aspects to them).

One big issue is that when things aren't bound by copyright, the originals can be adulterated and you won't know:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/amazon-orwell-...

> The New York Times reports that in some countries where "1984" is in the public domain opportunists are printing cheap versions of the novel and listing them on Amazon, avoiding paying royalties owed to Orwell's estate in the US.

> The New York Times found 11 of the 12 fake Orwell books it ordered were dispatched from an Amazon warehouse and were labelled "new." The books cost as little as $3.

This seems like an obvious net-negative for society.

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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by kragen on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:08AM (#29485607)
Seems like a net positive: more people can read 1984. If your concern is that someone might publish a modified version of the text, why, public-domain status makes that easy to detect and analyze, because anyone can share the original version, which copyright makes illegal.
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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by hattmall on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:25PM (#29481241)
How is this a net negative for any one other than the Orwell estate??
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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by przemub on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:11PM (#29491788)
Orwell is dead and the society, which did far more for immemorializing his thought than his estate, should own the rights.

Are they adulterated or just reprinted?

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