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Originally Posted by HarryT
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the existence of Legal Deposit libraries has already removed an author's right to choose whether or not to preserve their work. It will be preserved regardless of the author's wishes.
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It might be preserved, but is it really accessible?
How much access does the average person have to those repositories? Yes, a book I might want to read can be located in the Library of Congress, but that requires a trip to Washington DC and whatever folderol is necessary to request and obtain the book.
If I physically or financially can't make that trip, I'm SOL regarding access to that book.