From: "Geo." 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:+swx+sgaXmHE092yn{at}attglobal.net...

> Ah. You're quite right. I can loan or sell my copy of the work to anyone,
> and they are free in turn to pass it on. The author doesn't own the copy
of
> the work and thus cannot control it. The author owns only the right to
> control copying of that work.

Now you got it. If the author want's to be sole owner of "the
work" he must own every copy of "the work" which is not
possible if you sell or give away copies, ie if you publish.  Once
published the work itself now exists in multiple copies.

Geo.

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