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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Why wouldn't we have his posthumous works edited and published without copyright protection?
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Because these were private papers that only the Tolkien family had access to. There would have been no incentive for Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R.'s literary executor, to edit and publish without reasonable financial return for doing so. Lack of copyright protection would not have made these papers available to anyone else.