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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Right, if you mean the original.
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Of course I mean the original. What? Are you going to complain that the books are being bowdlerize and you have to wait seventy years for the bowdleized versions to hit PD?
One old lady says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."
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Since it happens to alive authors and works that are in no hurry to become PD, it is a mixed bag.
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Not sure how many alive authors that does happen to. But I won't say it NEVER happens. On the other hand, thanks to their aliveness those authors will eventually get the rights back and rectify the situation.
See Stephen King's
The Stand, David Wingrove's
Chung Kuo, Ricardo Pinto's
The Stone Dance of the Chameleon, or just anything that is labelled
Author's Preferred.
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There has to be _some_ that like the idea. I am not sure who. I would assume they just avoid anything from known "offenders."
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"Some" people like any stupid thing you put in front of them:
Four in five Americans favor democracy over dictatorship
I would guess those that favor these changes aren't likely to be reading Wodehouse, Christie or any of these authors in the first place