[Elfwreck]

Originally Posted by elcreative

But if you don't like this hypothetical work in its specific format then you don't have to be a paying customer... go and buy something you do like and register your displeasure by refusing to purchase... simple, that's what freedom is about...

Or buy it, and change it however you like. The buyer doesn't have the right to sell a copied version, but in the US, they have the right to photocopy it, or tear the pages out in order to read them on a light table, or use them to make paper mache vases by plastering them over balloons. And the buyer can sell those balloon vases. Can dye the paper before reading--and sell the dyed version when done.

You get to decide how to *present* your art, not how the buyer experiences it. If you don't want it experienced in ways you dislike, don't sell it. If it would be an insult to your art to have it "misused," then you need to keep it and just display it under conditions you're happy with.