The CDL position paper doesn't say that "close" is good enough, it goes into all this stuff about how much effort they went to to develop a system to carefully track all borrowing to make ABSOLUTELY SURE the system doesn't let two borrowed copies exist for one physical copy EVER
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But if an author *wants* to put up a PDF of their book for free download, usually nothing at all is stopping them The idea that they've been gaslit by evil publishers into not doing this and the handwavy claims they'd all make more money somehow if they did do this don't hold up
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typically, tho not always. and certainly doesn't hold for other copyrighted material.
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Okay and copyright ceasing to exist completely gives authors more control how? You're saying the solution to corporations being able to bribe control of your work away from you is to never have any control in the first place?
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Books are one of the few such works where the original creator does maintain copyright. You do not see this with cinema, television or music.
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