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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I also think its wrong to enforce copyright on something that has no commercial value anymore or at the very least isnt been actively sold.
So its wrong both sides of the fence.
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Copyright is about more than the commercial value of the work. It's about the right of the owner to decide if, and how, their work is used. I don't think it's tenable to claim that copyright should lapse when something ceases to have commercial value (not least because it would be very difficult to determine whether something might gain commercial value again in the future - things do go in and out of fashion).
There are dirty tricks being perpetrated by the big rights owners in the pursuit of 'lost sales' but the correct response is for the courts to take a more nuanced view of the actual financial loss incurred due to file sharing.