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If any descendents of Shakespeare were to surface and be able to prove their connection, they would have no claim whatsoever to ownership of any rights over Shakespeare's plays. They are in the public domain, and were written before any copyright law existed.
But various publishers may have rights over the use of their printed versions of Shakespeare's material. Study versions, or editions with special illustrations can't simply be freely shared just because authorship rights no longer exist.
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∙ 11y agoItalian copyright last for 70 years after death of the author, which in this case was in 1936.
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