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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Any author has the ability to protect their work by not publishing it. However if an author wants to make money from society from their work, they trade it for money, and the work belongs to society.
But authors don't trade to society directly (in most cases) they trade with publishers.
Copyright doesn't benefit the authors, it benefits the publishers. By granting copyright to authors it means that publishers compete less, and by extending copyright the the number of titles that have copyright protection is increased, which lowers the trade value.
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I don't understand what you are saying here at all.
Do publishers have some innate right when they own the copyright that authors who own the copyright do not have?
Helen