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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I'm afraid I totally disagree.
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That's cool with me.
And I'm interested in the reasons!
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I can't think of any author I like to read who would want their work withheld from the public
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and if you don't know them they must not exist?
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Maybe there is some very rare example where the political views of the author changed.
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Maybe not so rare. Maybe you haven't hear about some because, you know...copyright DOES give the author that control, and the work was never published...
And actually, the first example that popped into my mind when I mentioned the control aspect was when Springsteen refused to license "Born in the USA" to the Bush campaign.
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Freedom to read is a much bigger value to me than the fact that an unfortunate author may wish to harm our freedom to read.
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So your poll vote must, logically, therefore be to abolish copyright entirely? No other answer makes sense if you're not going to consider the other side's rights. Except possibly the fish one.