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Burning the library in slow motion: how copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap of history 0

Jamie ‘Public Domain‘ Boyle sez, ‘When Ray Bradbury’s 1953 classic, Fahrenheit 451 was published, it was scheduled to enter the public domain this month — January 1, 2010. But then we changed the law. And Bradbury’s firemen look like pikers compared to the cultural conflagration that ensued. The works may not be physically [...]