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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
If you take advantage of copyright you cannot turn round and say I do not want the book to enter the public domain because you do not want it distributing any more. If you do not wish a book to be distributed do not publish it. If you do publish it and change your mind later, then tough. You have taken advantage of copyright and should pay your dues.
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Except when I wrote the book, copyright said that I had control over its distribution until after I was dead. You want to change the rules on me, and increase my "dues".
Copyright also protects unpublished works. Should someone be able to publish the journals I kept once they become 25 years old?
And how do you deal with me re-publishing the book after 24 years and charging $5,000 a copy? Are you going to also put maximum prices on what people can charge for books?