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> Should we lobby to limit the rights of an estate edit posthumously? Maybe a law that requires the old version be made available for free with the digital pur
by worrycue 4y ago
> Should we lobby to limit the rights of an estate edit posthumously?
Maybe a law that requires the old version be made available for free with the digital purchases. This way people can choose which version they want to read. It cost publishers and distributors next to nothing - you can have all the versions within the same "file" so there is no increase in distribution overhead apart from a minor increase in file size.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoCombined. If you want to sell a new modified version, you can, but the original goes into the library of congress and into the public domain. Also what does this do to citations? If we want to say that copyright also includes editright (does it? I would never have said so), and so the current owner of a copyright also has the right to edit, well ok but then is the new text still attributed to the original author? If you put words into someone else's mouth, what does it mean anymore to quote from a book and cite the author, but the author didn't actually say that? Somehow the new work should be divorced from the original author, except, the bulk is valued and that came from the original author, which should not be stolen from them. It's almost like it doesn't matter if you like it or not, what an author wrote is what they wrote. Editing it to taste is nothing but an absolute lack of integrity.