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Old 05-24-2010, 10:35 AM   #13
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I'm fairly sure that Mark Twain, if asked about the "rights" of his distant descendants (or, in this case, a foundation serving as his literary executors), would have said something like "Tell them to write their own damned books."
Nope. Mark Twain was on the side of perpetual copyright.

http://www.bpmlegal.com/cotwain.html

although it's possible that he might have had a different opinion if free distribution without publishers had been possible in his time.
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