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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
As a basic question, why do you think the copyright holder should decide what is preserved and what is not? A copyright holder may have no interest in preserving a particular book that isn't valuable at the time, but future generations may think it's valuable, even as just a historical example of what was published in some decade in the past.
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The copyright holder doesn't have a choice. He or she is
legally required in most countries to send the appropriate number of copies of the work to the appropriate legal deposit library in the author's country of residence.