The US Supreme Court has been blocking fair use and ]ublic domain additions for a century now and is still going strong disregarding the public good.
We need to assure robust, legally untouchable, piracy assets that will assure culture will go on through the public no matter how much the state tries to lock it down. Not only for the sake of bypassing enshittification the flourishing of our public culture but the archival and preservation of historical content, since the market gives zero fucks about posterity.