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Originally Posted by K-Thom
If you want to read it, buy it. If you want to publish it, acquire the publishing rights. Especially if the work of is of any value to you. Other people's creative lifework isn't supposed to be the freebie playground for society.
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Actually it is, society gives the copyright protection in exchange for it expiring after a time. Read the copyright clause in the US constitution, it says to promote the progress of, not to enrich authors and inventors.