The beauty of the public domain is that it enables people to update that stuff for the modern era. That it can now be widely disseminated is the first step.
Look at King Arthur. A thousand year old legend that’s getting another variant next month - The Kid Who Would Be King.
> This stuff is almost 100 years old. It was written for a society very different from our own.
Different, yet still the same in many important ways. If this means great things like Harold Lloyd's seminal comedy Safety Last! will now be freely available, we've all won something...
This stuff is almost 100 years old. It was written for a society very different from our own.