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Those same Founding Fathers were also slave owners. |
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03-04-2012, 05:20 PM | #137 | |
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Some businesses decide to forgo the protection of patents, for example, and use trade secrets. That way they can keep their technology as long as they can keep it secret. But once it gets out, they have no protection at all. If you don't like the deal that copyright gives you, you're free to forgo this protection. It's impossible to keep someone from copying it, but you're free to go it alone. If you really believe that the public domain is theft, then anyone who uses public domain materials, or materials derived from the public domain is receiving stolen goods. |
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03-04-2012, 05:29 PM | #138 |
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Laws can be changed, what of it? Of course, in the US to make copyright eternal would require not a law change but a Constitutional amendment.
But your contention that the public domain is theft is to claim that regardless of what the law or the constitution says, the public domain is theft. |
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Right again; but until such time as the laws are changed, we live with what we have. |
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03-04-2012, 05:49 PM | #141 | |
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And I suppose any would have been native inhabitants, either captured, given or bought from same ? Didn't someone learned say a society had to become lazy in order to "need" slaves ? Or have a lot of warring to cope with, I suppose. |
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03-05-2012, 01:28 AM | #143 | |
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Property is a collection of rights the owner has over things. These rights vary significantly depending on the type of property and the type of ownership - but it really doesn't matter whether the property is tangible or intangible. |
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03-05-2012, 03:34 AM | #144 | |
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We are concerned with books here, and access to them. Internet 2.0 is not nonsense, far from it. There are many working on the nuts and bolts of the new system. Internet 1.0 was built to be open, and as such bred a community who believed in the openness of the network to all. If Internet 2.0 is built to be closed, we can assume that it will breed the same. Laws??????????????????? |
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03-05-2012, 04:06 AM | #147 |
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If somebody writes a book that people want to read that person has already made a contribution. And you can respect their wishes or disregard them and just take what you want. Is that the "great society" you are dreaming of, where everybody ignores other people's rights because they think they will easily get away with it?
And what contribution did you make to society, to justify your boundless sense of entitlement? And don't tell me you have already read all PD works worth reading. |
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The claim that the public domain is "legalized theft" is an appeal to natural law, it is a claim that intellectual property is a right which exists even without government. If someone wants to claim that no property rights exist without government, then it is not possible for the public domain to be legalized theft. |
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03-05-2012, 09:31 AM | #149 | |
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I addressed this real problem in an article that I re-upped a little while back.
http://dogsdespair.blogspot.com/2012...aper-book.html |
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