[klibertp]

> It's OK if a publisher doesn't want its work distributed around the world for everyone to see.

> And it's the artist's choice to do so, not the audience's.

There's a (not) very subtle contradiction in these two sentences.

In short: yay for authors' rights, forever and ever! but I probably couldn't care less about the leeches^W publishers.

The faster the publishing industry - perpetually stuck in the 15th century and trying way too hard to bring us all back to that time - is brought down in flames and replaced the better.

[Jasper_]

Did you misread the parent comment? One statement is positive towards publisher's rights, the other is positive towards authors rights.

[klibertp]

The first statement says the works of art belong to publishers ("...doesn't want its work..."), while the second implies that it's the authors who have full rights to their work ("...it's the artist's choice to do so..."). So, which is it?