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07-10-2008, 08:31 AM | #16 | |
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If I discover that a person is illegally offering one of my books for download on the internet, do you believe that I should have a right to discover the identity of that person to allow me to prosecute them? I believe that I should have that right. At present, it is denied me unless I am some "mega-corporation" who can afford to take the ISP to court to force them to hand over the person's personal details. That seems WRONG to me. The criminal is seen as having a "right" to anonymity while the rights of the "victim" of the crime (the author) are being ignored. |
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07-10-2008, 08:34 AM | #17 |
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I didn't say that authors have an automatic right to make a living. I said that they have a right to get paid by users of their product. Clearly if nobody uses it, because it's a bad producd, the author isn't going to make any money, copyright law or no copyright law.
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07-10-2008, 08:37 AM | #18 | |
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This is the point of copyright, to encourage a creator to make more. A dead creator cannot make more and thus does not need copyright protection. |
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07-10-2008, 08:41 AM | #19 |
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That may have been the intent 200 years ago when authors were "gentlemen" who didn't have to work for a living. Clearly, times have changed, and today virtually all authors write to make money, and income from their books is their only "asset". To say that those assets cannot be handed on to their dependents seems WRONG to me.
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and yes, the authors should be free to pass on *whatever money they earned while alive* to their spouses or children or local dog shelter. but copyright should not outlast them by 70 years. that's not the same at all. |
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07-10-2008, 08:52 AM | #21 | |
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If I build a house, I can pass on the ownership of that house to my children. You're saying that if, instead of building a house, I write a book, I shouldn't be allowed to pass on rights to income from the book to my children? Can you explain what the difference in the two situations is? I really can't see any! |
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Of course there is no right to make a living on any specific thing. Do you really believe there are such rights? If so why should I not be able to make a living on anything I want to do?
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Or what do you mean by "right"? |
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What seems WRONG to me is that the advantage of handing down assets as you want to do is so small compared to the advantage of having the books free to use for everybody. |
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07-10-2008, 09:08 AM | #27 |
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Here is what separates IP from physical property. Physical property exists; you can put your hands on it. IP would not exist without having been legislated into existense.
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I mean, Tommy, that if I have proof that a machine with a specific IP address is offering my copyrighted material for download illegally, I should have a right to be able to obtain the name and address of the person whose internet connection is being used from their ISP. That seems reasonable to me. Why should a criminal be able to hide behind a "cloak of anonymity"?
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07-10-2008, 09:16 AM | #29 |
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So what about, say, shares in a company? Shares are a completely abstract concept - they are a measure of "ownership", which certainly isn't anything physical. And yet the law has no problem with you leaving somebody company shares in your will. Shares are just as much "intellectual property" as income from a book is.
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