If you're excited that things are entering the #PublicDomain — which you should be! — perhaps it's worth considering reforming copyright.
In many places currently it's 70 years after the death of the author, or longer. This is insanity.
An important piece of culture made by a young author could be locked behind copyright (with rights usually held by publishers, not authors themselves anyway) for over a *century*.
That's how you get #Disney to own almost everything.
Reform #copyright!
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Also, there are some pretty generous assumptions for authors who have gone missing. For example, https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Pami%C4%99tniki_lekarzy is affected by that in a somewhat ridiculous way.
