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The question at hand is whether, when a creator exercises their right to refuse to sell their work, those who can no longer buy it have the right to copy and di
by strken 7y ago
The question at hand is whether, when a creator exercises their right to refuse to sell their work, those who can no longer buy it have the right to copy and distribute the work.
It seems obvious that you can refuse to sell your work, but if you don't exercise an exclusive right to distribute content, should you lose that exclusivity?
- TylerE 7y agoAbsolutely not. I don't understand why this is controversial. Say you release a volume of experimental poetry, in a small print run of 100 copies. You decline to do any further printing. Should anyone who wants just be able to make bootleg copies?
- erik_seaberg 7y agoWhy should we stop them? If you demanded to buy back those 100 copies and burn them, we wouldn't even consider enforcing that.