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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm pretty sure that what I said before about the law giving you the right to publish and the right not to publish, as you see fit, is as true under US copyright law as it is under British law.
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Not entirely. The US copyright law has the concept of a statutory copyright license. It mostly applies to music, but it is in place specifically to stop you from being able to "not publish" a work. Anyone may publish it as long as they pay the statutory license rate to you. This is what allows anyone to make a cover recording of a song. It's not a universal part of the copyright law, so it mostly doesn't apply to books. There are parts of it that do apply to books.
Greg