[FM Discuss] Deleting an unwanted book from My Manuals?

[helen varley jamieson]

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On 28/09/11 6:34 PM, Micz Flor wrote:
> people have used their right to destroy their things. 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms 
>
> there is no simple answer to this question.
>
> my believe is that free means i am free to create to change to duplicate
> and to destroy.
>
> On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 17:28 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>>> lets say i wrote "How To Bypass Internet Censorship". The manual exists
>>> only on FM (for arguments sake) with no clones. I then decide for what
>>> ever reason (I'm drunk, i decide i dont any longer support internet
>>> freedom, whatever) to delete it...
>>>
>>> everyone happy?
>> I would be, the author doesn't have the ultimate right over their own
>> work otherwise. Think of those authors who would rather hide their early
>> attempts from the public.
>>
>> More controversially, I would also support the original author of a work
>> deleting a book that had been collaboratively edited. A really bad edit
>> can destroy the purpose of the original work, and yet the author's name
>> is still attached to that work. I've had it done to me a couple of times
>> with magazine articles that I would rather were never printed.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Daniel
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