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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Paul, do you believe that society should respect the wishes of an author to restrict access to the literary work after his death?
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If it's still within copyright law, then yes. If however the author has written that he doesn't want his works released to public-domain beyond the expiration of the copyright law period then that's an interesting debate within itself.
However authors produce their work knowing (or so they should!) that there will be an expiry of copyright, if they don't wish to write under those terms then perhaps they'd be better off keeping it locked in a safe.
Paul