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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Copyright law needs to be simplified. If you create something, it's yours forever and you have full legal rights to do whatever you want with it. You also have the right to pass it on to someone else, who in turn, has the same rights forever; and on and on and on into infinity.
Whether society gains or loses from it is totally irrelevant. Society didn't create it and has no right to any part of it.
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Society created words the author used, in most cases all the ideas author used, all the building blocks of a story. It's crazy to me to pick all those building blocks, use them, and then say "yes, I took the culture from society, I learned it, and I made such and such combination of ideas, and all this belongs to me now, you can't use it back".
There was a story Philip K Dick wrote (I just looked through his collection of stories but can't find it now) about a society where you could copyright words. Every time you used the word in your speech or thought, you would be fined specific amount of money. I don't believe anyone would want to live in a world like this. If stories could be patented like you want them to be, soon it would be impossible to write a new story without being sued by a hundred idea squatters.