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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If a work isn't published, no-one can copy it, no matter what its copyright status. One has to have a copy of a work (or the original) before one can copy it, after all.
I add the 50 years from death of author clause to encourage publication of unpublished works.
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One should be free to write something and not let it be published, but apparently that right expires with the writer? I honestly don't know how this common law copyright works.
rjb