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Originally Posted by HarryT
Copyright law absolutely includes the right not to publish. That's what guarantees you the right to keep your private diary private, for example. The right not to publish is a fundamental part of copyright law. It's about you, as the author, deciding who has the right to make copies of your work. If your decision is "nobody", that's absolutely your right.
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That's the modern European definition of copyright, i.e. author's rights. The US has a somewhat different view and historically, copyright had nothing to do with the author, but rather with the publisher.