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Copyright is supposed to protect and promote cultural works. When a copyright holder stops doing that, and instead actively makes a work harder to find in its o
by Georgelemental 3y ago
Copyright is supposed to protect and promote cultural works. When a copyright holder stops doing that, and instead actively makes a work harder to find in its original form, their rights to that work should be revoked.
- eesmith 3y agoI don't think you understand copyright. Let's consider a cultural work. If I make a poem, it's covered under copyright. Suppose the local library posts it on the wall for a season, for anyone to come by and read. Libraries like to promote local culture, so they rotate things out so others get a chance to show their work. At the end of the season, my work comes down. I take it home and file it for later. Perhaps I'm looking for a publisher but it takes a few years to find one. It's now much harder to find in its original form. That withdrawal from the public sphere does not revoke my copyright, nor should it revoke my copyright.