• TheHalc
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes, a statement on copyright thanking someone for buying an authorised edition of Great Expectations, a book whose copyright expired in 1940 at the latest…

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      Right, the copyright is specifically for random essays added to the book, so that they could release it and say it wasn’t entirely public domain, so you shouldn’t copy it. A weird place to say “copyright fuels creativity” when it’s clearly not the reason for the copyright here.