Togashi Gaijin wrote:The one right you explicitly DO NOT have is the right to republish or distribute copies of the work without permission.
If an author wants his/her works to "disappear completely from the net", that is his/her right to do so. The fact that you may not like it is your problem, not the authors.
Ellen Khufeld wrote:I've seen fan authors who put "do not distribute" on their fics, and authors who specifically authorize it.
I'll have to consider what to do about this myself. In any case, "unaltered" is bound to be a feature of any permission I give.
Like it or not, T.G. is empirically correct in this. Under US copyright law, the *only* distribution that you can do of a copyrighted work is that explicitly permitted by the copyright holder.
Of course, as Ellen suggests, many authors wish their work to be more widely distributed and available.
If you are one such author, I strongly suggest you investigate making your work available under one of the
Creative Commons licenses. These are specific grants from the copyright holder in the form of a license to freely distribute and, for some licenses, reuse their work.
Go read up on 'em, and choose a good license for your work.
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