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Originally Posted by K-Thom
What a shame he survived WWII ... any author with a social conscience should terminate his/her life as soon as the one novel that had to be written is out.
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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Seriously? Well, guess what, I bought it. However, I guess that most authors would rather prefer to see their work distributed as much as possible instead of giving their publishers and their descendants to the n-th degree an easy life for decades after their deaths.
Finally other peoples' intellectual and creative lifework is exactly supposed to be a "freebie playground for society". We have all enjoyed plenty of "freebies" of other peoples' intellectual and creative lifeworks, collected over millennia. That's what civilization is about. Therefore every author's work is destined to become a "freebie" for all at some point.
It is rather remarkable that intellectual property that is protected by a patent enjoys a much shorter period of protection than the work of e.g. a novelist.