Well if we had your way, you'd just be reading the public domain book instead.

>If someone would be free to create the thing without copyright duress, it is better even if delayed, because it was done with the least restriction of freedom.

Who said delayed? I didn't. The alternative isn't Mulholland drive coming out in 2011 instead of 2001, it's it not being made at all.

And it's trivial to opt out of copyright protection, giving your work up to the public domain. I wonder why more authors don't!

My use of duress was ironic and this conversation is not productive.