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Originally Posted by j.p.s
What's really sad is that there are probably some judges that would accept that argument.
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There are always idiots
Here's Lois McMaster Bujold (first published 1986)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/160...jold/questions
Another factor is authorial control. Publishers of any sort require contracts and rights licensing which, depending on the terms, can remove the author's control of the book for anything from some set number of years (OK) to term-of-copyright (or as I call it, unto the heat-death of the universe.) This latter is best avoided, although again, a particular author with a particular title and particular other terms may decide it's worthwhile to them. In the era of paper-books-only, one could commonly get these rights back for one's out-of-print titles for the asking, but now that e-books are forever and most publishers are immortal corporations, this is a lot harder to do.
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