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Hmm... Giggleton, you are making me dizzy.
You support the free market idea that the author ought to be able to establish the price
he charges for his manuscript and the price the publisher gets to set what he charges
when he sells the book and even the consumer gets to set what he will take to resell the
book. This is all based on the natural law that "what I own is mine to sell, if I want or need to". Copyright - gives the Author a means to sell "the right to make copies" to the
publisher, so that the publisher can sell the copies "that he then owns".
There is no reason that a Copyright need provide exclusive, or unlimited right to make
copies to one publisher. (Except that the Publisher might not decide to publish a book
without such provisions. The Author may or may not be in a position to establish such
terms, and end up with a published book.)
It only becomes Censorship if we were to have the conditions you were advocating in
another thread.
Luck;
Ken
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