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ZeMastor t1_jdvzy52 wrote

Reply to comment by Ground2ChairMissile in Sensitivity Changes Keep Authors Relevant (but are also a cash machine for their great great great grand kids) by mkbt

THIS!

Thank you! I was going to say something along those lines.

If copyright worked the way that OP had said, the estates and descendants of authors of works in public domain, or nearing public domain status, could simply tinker with a 100+ year old work by and keep resetting/extending the copyright (of the original) forever.

That's not how public domain works.

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