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> If something is not legally available then copyright law ought to make it eligible for free distribution

What about stuff that's in flight? Or your IP that you've developed that is taken off the market and you are incorporating into another product? Or stuff you put out there and it flops because of timing and you plan to relaunch again in 2 years? There are many situations where this doesn't hold up.

You sentiment makes sense but implementation is tricky.



This is why legislation isn't one sentence long and we also have judges.


What about it? Why should anyone have the right to make things unavailable but still control what others do.




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