Authors' Moral Rights-And How Editors and Publishers Routinely Abridge Them

摘要

I take it as my ethical starting point that no one speaks for anyone else, except with agency. This is especially true, if anything at all can properly be termed "especially true," for professional authors who customarily-if not always; even Homer nods- say what and only what they.mean to say. Yet editors and publishers-who should surely know better-routinely abridge this ethical principle by a variety of maneuvers which have the same, contrarian effect: That the author ultimately ends up conveying something other than what and only what he intended to convey. Most of the time the differences are small; sometimes they are egregious.