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Originally Posted by darryl
It has never been the case that the big publishers offered no value. But the price for those bundled services was the authors loss of their work for the whole of their life plus 70 years or thereabouts, and their surrender of control.
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I don't disagree with your general point, but I would note that the publisher does not (normally, at least) own the copyright in the work, and the length of the publishing contract has nothing to do with the term of copyright protection.