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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I disagree there. I do not have any right, divine or otherwise, to demand a creator allow me to buy, borrow or take his creation. It is the creator's right to bestow access to others, or to lock his creation away, or to destroy it three minutes after he's finished it.
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So then why as in a later post - agree that "orphan works" are bad and every effort should be made to make them available ??- which btw I agree with completely
If the creator has an absolute right than whoever bought the right to his creations has the same absolute right so if that entity so chooses to leave tons of works "expire", it's their absolute right after all...
This I think is the ultimate crux of dispute for me - I think that everyone agrees that authors - and others who enable their work to go public like editors, publishers and such - should be compensated, but once a book is offered to the public, the author' rights and by extension whomever holds them are not absolute anymore and the public has a stake