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Shakespeare productions get applauded thousands of times a year, both on stage and on film. Is there something wrong with that? Or does your standard not apply just because Shakespeare had the courtesy to die a few hundred years before modern copyright laws were invented?

Even if they were in effect then, his works would still be out of copyright by now.

Complicating the matter, in spite of the Berne Treaty,  is diferent jurisdictions; for instance, the concept of 'Fair Use" enshrined in US law doesn't exist in many other countries, including, I believe, the EU... ..

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