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Comment by jeffreyrogers

6 days ago

If he sold his rights then it's not really against his wishes anymore.

He died. So pedantically you can say he doesn't have any wishes any more, but it's clear they meant that it's against what he wanted when alive.

  • Well he chose not to make those wishes known in his will apparently, or in any of the contracts which assigned his IP to others.

Silly me, I thought there was ethics beyond The Profit Motive.

  • The author owns the copyright unless they transfer it. His transference of those rights shows that he was motivated by profit.