As the George Orwell meme that's presented below crossed my facebook feed earlier this week, I couldn't resist bringing it into the illustration of my idea that, once the work is finished and the author ceases to be present, his intention also ceases to have consequences upon the interpretation of what he was trying to communicate.

Well done!
Besides the question if Orwell truly had said this, there are many many authors who said or could have said such words in regard to the reception or interpretation of their work --- or should we at this point better say: the abuse? The willingly done misinterpretation?
On every 'interpretation' there is the possibility of 'misinterpretation', and the crucial fact is: to decide or differentiate you have to interprete both, the work and the foreign interpretation. Be you yourself the author or not. What are criteria to cut valid interpretations from unvalid ones? Is the author being able to act as authority on this? Why did Lenin and Tse-tung / Zhe-dong so cruelly misinterprete Marx & Engels? Why are scientists getting instrumentalised by politicians? Is the game of 'interpretation' in the end - not at all about truth but about power?
What says which science to the misuse of power? (How are the definitions of misuse?)