David W. Fenton wrote:
I don't see how the public domain can shrink, unless non-copyrighted works are somehow re-copyrighted.
Erm. That's exactly what did happen with the last copyright law. As part of the GATT treaty, the US agreed to honor Russian copyrights, which meant that, e.g., Shostakovich and Prokofiev scores that had been pd here suddenly went back under copyright. In point of fact, the pd *has* shrunk.
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