It's called our public domain rights. Culture belongs to everyone, that's the natural way of things. We willingly chose to pretend that we can't copy and distribute your book infinitely at negligble cost so you could make some money and be rewarded for your efforts. We sure as hell didn't do that so you could have functionally infinite rent seeking all the way down to your grand children.
Authors and the copyright industry as a whole lobby the governments with the intent to systematically rob us of our fair use and public domain rights. You're not keeping up your public domain side of the bargain. Why should we keep up our end? We shouldn't. We won't.
The entitlement of thinking you're owed eternal monopoly rights over information. The entitlement of thinking you can own unique numbers. How ironic.
Public domain is a right and its existence is implied by the words "time-limited" in copyright law. The whole objection to copyright is based on the fact they have made a mockery of the concept by simply extending copyright durantions whenever works of rich corporations are about to expire. There is no such thing as public domain if the copyright is never actually allowed to expire.
Authors and the copyright industry as a whole lobby the governments with the intent to systematically rob us of our fair use and public domain rights. You're not keeping up your public domain side of the bargain. Why should we keep up our end? We shouldn't. We won't.