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Originally Posted by tompe
Get hold of in what way? If they steal them I would be very surprised if they could use them.
And copyright does not stop quotations from the papers. So I do not see how copytight can stop spreading of information since by fair use you can quote from the papers.
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There are lots of ways this could happen, mostly involving you allowing people to see the journals. You let someone read your journals and they not only read them, but publish them. You give certain scholars access to the work in your library. You share the journal with people in your writing group. Etc.
Copyright wouldn't stop fair use copying of bits and pieces in other documents, and it's not really designed to keep your journal *secret*. But it would prevent wholesale reproduction and copying.
This is a *very* common concern. Assume that Ronald Reagan (Or Richard Nixon or Dwight Eisenhower) kept a diary, and the diary is housed in their presidential library. The heirs may well want scholars to have access to the documents for their own research purposes, but wouldn't want Joe Scholar to publish Reagan's Diaries in their entirety.