I’ll try it simpler: at the point you give up the right to make changes to your work, you cannot be censored. It’s nonsensical.
So, as soon as the author of a work (music, painting, movie, literature, whatever) dies (or otherwise releases the rights), the work is immune from censorship? Any modifications to it are just "edits" as distinct from "censorship"? At least when the modifications are done by the rightsholder?
I really wasn't expecting this conversation to dovetail this way, but I gotta say I find it fascinating.
On the topic of censorship, if whoever owns the rights to Orwell's 1984 goes in and replaces every utterance of the word "eff" with "fudge" for future prints, you would view that as something other than "censorship"?