The thing people miss about the whole “deleting 1984” thing is that the copy they deleted was a pirated copy that was illegal to sell in the US. You can certainly argue that copyrights are too long, that Australia (for example) has more logical copyright laws, etc, but anyone who sells something that they don’t have the rights to sell has to buy it back or face legal consequences. They didn’t delete books willy-nilly.
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