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Originally Posted by ApK
But all again ignoring the important benefit of copyright that is the right to NOT have your work published if you don't want it to be. Copyright is intended to give the creator CONTROL for it's duration. The negative right is important as well the positive right. It would be wrong to say "you get this right of control ONLY if you publish and capitalize on your work." No. When copyright expires, THEN society can publish and make money money off it as they see fit. Until then the whole point is the CREATOR gets to say how and if the work is used. That's part of the encouragement to create.
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And you're ignoring the fact that if you're still alive, and someone publishes something of yours against your will, you can have them arrested for theft. If you don't want it published after you die, you can put it into your will that it must be destroyed upon your death (or held in a locked box or something similar) until the copyright runs out. Although...if you create something that you are that adamant about never getting published, it may be a better idea to simply destroy it.
Shari