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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Copyright law was made to protect authors from publishers. The general public lost their right to do with the work as they pleased for a limited amount of time in order to have the legal means to give this protection. The rights belonged to the author until they went back to the general public.
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Yes, but how does copyright law REDUCE the rights of authors? Copyright law gives authors rights that they don't have without it; it doesn't take any rights away from an author. And what on Earth does any of this have to do with what we're discussing here?