[GretchenEE]

Since I am currently reading one book published in the late 1700's, another one published in 1953, and several others published before I was born, and I know the copyright issues have all been handled successfully, I am not worried about worthy books falling into the copyright-fire pit of history over the long term.

[FreedomCalls]

I am not worried about worthy books falling into the copyright-fire pit of history over the long term.

Have you seen a copy of Disney's Song of the South at Blockbuster recently? Disney is using the copyright law to suppress this movie for political correctness reasons.

What about Lon Chaney's London After Midnight? Where can I get a copy of it? It is lost. No one can find a copy. If it were freely copiable it would have been archived by somebody somewhere, but instead it deteriorated away in a movie studio's vault because they had sole say-so in who copied it. And now no one will ever be able to see it again.