1. Once an author writes a book it might belong to them in terms of copyright but it also belongs to the world as a creation. But some writers try to self-cancel. Some thoughts on this with reference to Rosemary Tonks, Sidney Hook, Kafka, Virgil, Seuss, James Gould Cozzens, etc. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1368202799935332352 …
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12. One takeaway is that despite the culture war certainties offered in the Seuss debate, we're dealing with a complex area of competing just clams. I think looser copyright after writer's death helps sort some of this out by removing a veto point.
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13. Tangentially, this is another place where the cancel culture hysteria, if it were based on what it claims to be, would look to policy solutions rather than performative outrage.https://twitter.com/alex_shephard/status/1368992283782176777 …
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If they really wanted their work destroyed they would have done it themselves while they were alive.
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At least for Vergil, he wished it destroyed because it wasn’t finished. Had he survived his illness he would have kept working on the poem. Two other poets were appointed to edit together a complete work from his drafts.
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Stanley Kubrick tried to bury his first feature film, “Fear and Desire”:https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/93924/fear-and-desire-movie-stanley-kubrick-didnt-want-you-see …
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It has been argued that Kafka's instructions to Brod to burn all Kafka's unpublished works (which included all three novels) were really ironic, that Kafka knew Brod would never carry out these instructions, and that Brod had even so informed him.https://teachprivacy.com/frank-kafkas-last-wishes/ …
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