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Old 08-28-2013, 07:31 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
Because if you hold the patent on some essential technology you can effectively strangle the market, if you have sole rights to a book or film it's not going to make a blind bit of difference to anything. Same reason there are rules in place saying you have to licence "essential patents" under fair terms, but no one says you have to let them make a film of your book.
Materially, yes. Culturally, no.

Culturally, everyone suffers when a book drops out of availability.
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