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by adulau 5496 days ago
The history showed that many works when going into public domain generated a brand new active market. As an example, the work from Freud has been recently put in the public domain (in Europe, it means only that the patrimonial rights are expected but the effect are somehow similar to put the works in the public domain). The first day you could find in all the book-stores many new publications from his works included annotated version or commented version. All the editors knew it was a good opportunity and a brand new market of works based on previous Freud work. Before the work was closed by the right holders and no real economic activities... So I still don't get the point of that lawyer.
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Sorry, a small typo: s/expected/expired/