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What stops you from publishing the version of the Bible or the Quran with your edits? Nothing. Maybe nobody wants to read it, but that’s your marketing problem.

If copyright were shorter, we could similarly have Dahl in any number of edits and adaptations. And personally I don’t see any problem with that.

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Nothing, but I would think that if popular sentiment was so big, and that all the major bible publishers changed a lot of the "holy" books, it's much different than if I did my own. Sure, Thomas Jefferson created his own, too. But that's not what the issue is. It's about every bible publisher changing the bible, and in the bible, it would be a LOT more that needs to be changed/deleted than in Dahl's books.

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