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Literal Extortion

Posted on Jul 24, 2014

Literal Extortion

The verb “extort” means “obtain (money, a promise, a concession, etc.) from a reluctant person by threat, force, importunity, etc.)” The noun form, “extortion”, means “the act or an act of extorting money etc.” (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary published by Clarendon Press, 1993). Requiring someone to pay copyright royalties for a manner of use of a literary work, when none is due in law, amounts to literal extortion. It is not a salutary practice. Copyright in a work confers upon the copyright owner the exclusive right to perform certain acts in relation to that work...

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