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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
No, you misunderstand. The emphasis is "author". The author is the one and only entity that should be allowed to make changes. After death, there cannot be anymore changes. A publisher's editor may suggest changes to make a book acceptable for publishing, but ultimately the author needs to do it. The right that the author gives up temporarily, or permanently, should only be the right to publish, not the right to edit for other than typos.
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I'm not that happy about the author deciding to retrospectively change their work, not if the changes are significant. (Time to argue over "significant"
.) But in practical terms this would seems a suitable compromise that would not offend me too much - which is, of course, the important thing here.
But it's not going to happen. There is a continuum between minor edits and full adaptations and rewrites, and I cannot see how you can block one without blocking the other ... or opening a whole new realm of court disputes.
In general my reaction to most adaptations is "if you can't do it properly then make up your own damn story", but then I am forced to admit that some adaptations have been very good.
The search for easy answers continues.