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Originally Posted by tompe
The same thing as what? It is the right to never distribute your work. Just burn it or never show it to anybody. You do not need copyright to have that right.
Copyright is for controlling your work after you have sold it.
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Copyright very importantly gives you a right
not to publish, as well as a right to publish. Copyright gives you a right to not to have things like personal letters and diaries published against your wish, or against the wish of your family, following your death.