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===Public domain===
 
===Public domain===
When copyright was originally implemented in law in the commonwealth, it was only supposed to protect a given work for fourteen years. After that term, the copyright would expire and the work would enter the '''public domain''' (to incentivize further creation of works). In the United States however, the copyright term has been extended numerous times to keep works under the control of the rights holders, which are usually not the original creators since the term is now so long (95 years) they would have died. Entertainment companies have a love-hate relationship with the public domain, willfully using works that are under it while preventing their own creative works from being "misused".
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Based on the original design of a copyright, the time that a creative work stays protected should be finite; that is, it should expire. Say the protection of a copyright originally lasted fourteen years from the date it was originally conceived in the commonwealth. After those fourteen years, when the copyright "expires", the work becomes '''public domain''' (this is done to incentivize further creation of works). Long-running companies want to continue profiting off of old work, so they often set precedents in modern law that extend this time to as long as ''one hundred years'' for example. In many western countries, companies have a love-hate relationship with the public domain, willfully using works that are under it while preventing their own creative works from being misused.
  
 
==Legality of emulation==
 
==Legality of emulation==

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