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Originally Posted by HarryT
Copyright law gives the rights-holder the right to choose whether or not to publish. It's what lets you keep your private diary private, for example, should someone try to publish it without your permission. It's a two-way street: choose to publish or choose not to publish. As the rights-holder it's your (and nobody else's) decision to make.
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I disagree, if that was so it would not have been originally limited to 14 years and would not be limited at all now. What keeps your diary, just like your bank account statements, secure is that to publish them some one would have to break into your house, your locked desk, safe or bank deposit vault or hack your computer. If you want your diary to never be published lock it up in life and arrange for someone you trust to burn it after you are dead.