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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Could be, or could be arbitrary, or could be that publishing industries in general are not in the same league financially as pharmaceutical companies etc. Maybe public opinion is stronger. Not many have died from not getting a free book.
Helen
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Just politics.
The public isn't outraged that a big manufacturing company or pharmaceutical company loses monopoly rights, but get flummoxed by the poor starving widow of the author because the book is unprotected.
How the Disney Company gets the "widow's protection" I don't know.