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Originally Posted by LadyKate
In my opinion the copyright act needs to change. It needs to recognize the changes to what a book is and to provide different levels of protection for the works. A publisher should not be able to obtain the "entire" protection of the copyright act that the writer has by virtue of it being their work.
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I disagree. It is a private contract when an author signs all rights to the work over to a publisher. The Constitution specifically forbids the US government from interfering with private contracts. Acts of Congress cannot change the Constitution.