[wbhart]

I assume you are being facetious. Rousseau doesn't owe anything to any publisher. Just checking you understood this.

[EvanAnderson]

I am being facetious, but I daresay a lot of people who work in the publishing industry sincerely believe that viewpoint.

I believe we're living in a time when publishers are becoming increasingly irrelevant. They're clawing onto anything they can to retain their position as middlemen and as a tax on commerce.

[Gibbon1]

Years ago read a music exec claim that 'republishing' content should re-extend copyright.