Thread: Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
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Old 02-12-2018, 03:51 PM   #112
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Originally Posted by Richwood View Post
I think that our current copyright law is ridiculous. To me, if a book is out of print or ebook commercial availability for 25 years then it should lose copyright, even if the author is still alive. If out of new commercial availability for that long then what is the chance of a publisher spending the time and effort to reissue it? Probably 99% of copyrighted material falls into that category I suspect. Also copyright should only be issued to the author rather than allowing publishers to hold ownership.
The devil is in the details, though. Suppose I published an extremely racist book or a book that had shared embarrassing details about somebody, so I stop distributing it. After 25 years, a random person can take my book and start publishing it again? Copyright is also my right not to publish.
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