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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
How do you stop the physical dissemination? You don't control the used book market, you don't control the various library systems, you don't control the private lending of physical product.
Yet you want total control of all digital doppelgangers of the work, to the point of making it not available.
<Shrug> That is simply not possible considering today's technology. I think of Trademark...use it or lose it.
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Never said control of physical dissemination... lending, reselling or giving away doesn't change the physical production of a physical object... but why should I be forced to let some third party redo the object into an inferior digital version when the original is produced as a specific art object with its physicality intrinsic to its content... I'm not talking about general works, I'm hypothesising the production of a specific item where the physicality is intrinsic to its concept and value as an artistic expression... such an object doesn't require control of digital doppelgangers as such a thing can't exist, it simply requires no inferior attempt to copy the item...
You were the one stating that just because a person produced a book didn't give them any right to stop a third party digitising it even if it wasn't legally available in digital format... never mind today's technology, that's still wrong, morally, ethically and legally... there are many things that I can do but it doesn't mean that such actions are necessarily valid/correct/ethical/moral/legal just because I can do them...