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Originally Posted by Mitchll
... if I as the producer/publisher want to release my work in a 35mm format, or a pdf format, it is my work and your choice is only to consume or not. That is what property rights are all about.
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That may not be true. In Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin ("The Wind Done Gone" case), Judge Marcus'
opinion pointed out (pg 60):
The law grants copyright holders a powerful monopoly in their expressive
works. It should not also afford them windfall damages for the publication of the
sorts of works that they themselves would never publish, or worse, grant them a
power of indirect censorship.
There may not be a "right to not publish in formats I don't like." There's a right to exploit the market... but not a right to suppress it.