Gee...do you think the equal protection clause is applicable under the law? Anyone publishing works in the public domain has just gotten themselves booted out of business for 20+ yrs.
Does anyone want to make the argument that one reason school books are becoming notriously scarce is that NONE of the classics written in the last 8 decades are available for reprint without royalties. One can almost see a time when the generations of the 20th century are reviled by future ones as culturless because so little of it will survive or be made available for archival and preservation.
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02/10/2003 09:53 PM
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And yes, it is germane to this list, although devoid of legal cites.
"The first thing you'd do in classics publishing was keep a list — a
rolling schedule of what was going into the public domain," [David][
Ebershoff [publishing director of The Modern Library] said. "That was
item No. 1. Now it's not only not item No. 1; it's not an item."