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Posted by Steven Wu on Monday, February 10 @ 17:21:38 EST
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The New York times has this story about how publishing companies often make an incredible amount of money publishing works in the public domain. Near the end of the article, there is this reaction from a publisher to the Copyright Term Extension Act:
"The first thing you'd do in classics publishing was keep a list--a rolling schedule of what was going into the public domain," Mr. Ebershoff said. "That was item No. 1. Now it's not only not item No. 1; it's not an item."
Dover Publications, publisher of Dover Classics, was on the side of petitioners in Eldred v. Ashcroft, against a coalition of publishers and their trade associations. As the book market becomes ever tighter, and rival publishing companies begin to look jealously at old but popular works hoarded by certain publishers, will there be an even larger defection away from lengthier copyright terms and back to public domain?
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