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Without sounding overly pessimistic, but I have the opinion that copyright laws were written and developed in a different era.

Finical interests, not the public’s, are to blame for the overly restrictive copyright laws.

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The original US copyright law was 14 years with a 14-year extension if the author was still alive. Certainly financial interest (Disney) is to blame for that incrementally becoming 70 years after the death of the author.

> but I have the opinion that copyright laws were written and developed in a different era.

Unless I misunderstand what you are says, I'm pretty sure we had libraries throughout history.

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