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> Publishers should lose copyright to every work they do not offer in perpetuity with every purchase in every format If such a law comes, the publisher will se
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> Publishers should lose copyright to every work they do not offer in perpetuity with every purchase in every format
If such a law comes, the publisher will set the price to, say, 1 billion USD.
- dangus 3y agoSuch a law could easily forbid price gouging.
- LegibleCrimson 3y agoYeah, I keep seeing suggestions like this and I just don't get it. Like the only way people can fathom something being available is if it's for sale. We really need shorter copyright terms more than anything else.
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- derbOac 3y agoBut they don't do that with physical books.
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoI do know examples where publishers did stop printing new editions (i.e. stopped publishing) some books.