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Since future-dating your work is essentially stealing from the public domain [...] I think you're under the impression that copyrights expire at some point, wh
by randallsquared 16y ago
Since future-dating your work is essentially stealing from the public domain [...]
I think you're under the impression that copyrights expire at some point, which isn't really the case any more in the US for corporate-owned copyrights, right?
- Alex3917 16y agoRegardless, when I purchase a textbook I am buying the right to copy and redistribute that textbook after X date. By future-dating the work the publisher is taking away something that I have paid for, which seems like it shouldn't be legal.
- randallsquared 16y agoSince Congress can and has retroactively changed the length of copyright repeatedly, I don't think that there's any presumption that you are buying a right to copy after a given time, or at all. Since I'm against copyright in the first place, this argument about textbook copyright is rather academic to me. So to speak.