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Old 11-08-2011, 09:10 PM   #20
Ken Maltby
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Perhaps authors should be able the "lease" their copyright, for a specified period of
time or number of copies; instead of selling it?

Maybe a copyright could be non-exclusive and more than one publishing house or
company could publish a book at the same time. (More than one grocery could
sell a farmer's produce. You can buy Prestone Antifreeze at many different stores/outlets.)

If you want to say only one company can exercise the copyright, then why, other
than to create a non-competitive situation? Doesn't the ebook file, as the thing
being copied and sold, change things a little?

If you eliminate the publishing house/middleman and the author keeps the copyright,
only allowing other sites to sell copies from the author's site (incidentally creating a
mechanism for the author to have precise sales accountability for all legal sales.)
{Call me cynical but if were an author I might wonder what losses there might be
from Publishing House Accounting.}

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Ken
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