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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I don't think that's what Harry's getting at, at all.
I think what he considers unethical is if you or I were to take a PD work that he has spent hours proofing and correcting and profit from his labor, rather than doing our own proofing and correcting and selling that edition.
By the very nature of the public domain, it's not illegal - but I can certainly see his point.
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Wouldn't a person that would choose not to work from the most correct version of a PD work be a bit of an idiot?
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
That way you have a record of who said yes. And there should be no arm-twisting. This should be like a vote, in private and with your own conscience, both in giving permission and abiding by the answer.
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Why shouldn't there be arm-twisting? The people whose arms would arguably be twisted do not in fact have any legal claim of rights to the works in question, as Harry himself stated several times.
All we (not I personally, to be sure) would be trying to do is to get them to be conscionable and admit this in writing. Might as well be public.
- Ahi