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Originally Posted by barryem
I'm all for copyright as long as it's about authors and publishers getting paid. It should never stand in the way of a book's availability. Copyright is about the right to distribute and it shouldn't include the right to withhold. We readers are worth something too.
Barry
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This is why copyright is supposed to be time limited. What's supposed to happen is that, after the copyright term expires, the protected work enters the public domain. The big problem with copyright in the US (and the parts of the world the US has successfully browbeat into following) is that copyright terms keep being extended in order to keep "Steamboat Willie" out of the public domain.