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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by foldr on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:49AM (#16966985)
>When the author burns their own book and forbids new ones from being made is the only time that it's acceptable to print new copies.

Do you mean acceptable from a legal point of view? Because I seriously doubt that it is.

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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by OrganicMSG on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:15PM (#16968393)
Without that view, we wouldn't have most of the works by Kafka.
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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by foldr on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:48PM (#16968759)
No, the only issue raised by Kafka's request to burn his papers is whether or not the copyright passed to someone else on his death. All works eventually become public domain, regardless of the author's wishes, since people die and copyright has a time limit.
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