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Comment by cryptonector

6 days ago

This is not a very hard problem. It's not even a problem. We've got a framework for protecting the rights of content creators as to their content, and we have it that after some time those works enter the public domain because that is actually quite valuable for society.

Pornography might be a problem, specifically as to this case or even generally -- many think reasonably think it is. Pornography does generally get less protection than other contents/speech, so you could limit the sorts of pornographic contents that are ok, and you could ban pornographic parodies of historical persons and characters that have entered the public domain. You could even see an outright ban on all pornography, which would completely solve that part of the "problem" that you see. But distasteful use of works that have entered the public domain is absolutely not a problem in and of itself because we have long ago decided that all works eventually entering the public domain is a very desirable outcome.