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Originally Posted by HarryT
You are saying that you believe that everything which is written should be "made available" to the public? So if I want to write (let's say) a private diary, and keep it to myself, I should lose my copyright through doing so?
That seems the most extraordinary suggestion to me. There is no "right of access" to a copyrighted work; if I chose to write something and keep it to myself, that is my absolute right (until 70 years after my death).
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Not really, I'm fine with private writing, and it wouldn't make sense if someone could demand for the work to be published after it was only heard to be created.
But I would be quite happy if there was a way to prevent a work that was once on sale and available to the public from becoming unavailable, or from restricting its availability to only some form (paper books/e-books/audiobooks). Currently there are so many books that are available on paper, and as e-books - just not for me, because I happen to live in a country where no one who has the copyright wants to sell those things to me. Why should piracy be my only option?