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The length of copyright protections after the author’s death is purely arbitrary and a good indicator of how the whole concept is just a matter of made-up monopoly power that doesn’t reflect any actual property rights based in natural law.

Australia has a history of removing controversial elements from children’s texts, but the question of whether they should be edited is not easy to answer

The company said Roald Dahl's 17 kids' books will be published later this year in their original form as "The Roald Dahl Classic Collection."

On top of having to fashion a costume out of nothing, parents are facing the challenge of choosing something that is politically correct too

Charles Spencer has blasted the bizarre decision to revise parts of Roald Dahls works to make them more acceptable to readers, arguing it risks removing the authors character.

Blyton’s lifestyle was criticised in her time out of gender bias that still lingers, although Dahl’s anti-Semitism was a serious issue

Publisher Penguin Random House announced Friday it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels after it received criticism for cuts and rewrites that were intended to make the books suitable for modern readers. Along with the new editions, the company said 17 of Dahl’s books would be published in their original form…

The culling of Roald Dahl’s fiction makes me shudder at what the “sensitivity readers” might do to my teen novel Puberty Blues.

Publisher Penguin Random House says it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels, after criticism of cuts and...

Publisher Penguin Random House announced Friday it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels after it received criticism for cuts and rewrites that were intended to make the books suitable for modern readers. Along with the new editions, the company said 17 of Dahl’s books would be published in their original form later this year as “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection” so “readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl’s stories they p...