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Originally Posted by Soldim
That won't work -- in case the author of a diary passes a way the heirs decide whether to publish or not. I do not even think that forbidding to publish in a will can legally prevent publishing by the heirs. The author can decide during his live time, not after.
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That's true, of course. I was responding, though, to the previous comment that copyright has no relevance if a work is not published. I must disagree with that view, for the reasons I stated. Copyright can be (and often is) used to prevent publication as well as to encourage it.