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Old 09-25-2019, 08:57 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by Tomk2 View Post
I did get a big laugh at an old science fiction story being sold on Amazon, and the first review was from the author. The author's review of his own story was that he thought so little of it he didnt bother to renew the copyright, so please dont buy it, he wouldnt want you to think it was typical of his work. Yet he could do nothing about other people promoting and selling it.

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Yep. Out of copyright doesn’t mean “distributed to the public for free”. It means “available to the public to do whatever they want”. Not only can you sell the book, you could change the author's name to your name. You could change the title and author and sell it as if it’s a new book. Anything
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