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Old 12-07-2010, 08:39 AM   #139
tubemonkey
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If I take your land, you don't have it anymore.

If I take your idea, you still have it.

Where would we be, I wonder, if Shakespeare's heirs owned a legal lock on "The Tempest"? We would definitely be poorer for it.
If you take my movie and sell it for $7 per copy while I'm still selling it for $12 per copy, then I no longer have it.

I don't care if we're the poorer for it, it wasn't our work to begin with. And society certainly has no right to arbitrarily place a time limit on someone's possessions (but we do it anyway).
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