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Simpletimes322 t1_ja1aptl wrote

Reply to comment by sithelephant in Roald Dahl threatened publisher with ‘enormous crocodile’ if they changed his words by Mighty_L_LORT

Ya some lawyer fakery... The percent of people in favor of this kinda censorship is very low

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jamar030303 t1_ja1xszc wrote

The flip side is, "modification" covers literally any kind of change, so if an author were to completely prohibit any changes we wouldn't be able to have parody works like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", for instance.

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Simpletimes322 t1_ja3hh6t wrote

This is just not true, the parody would just need to be published under a different name...

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