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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
That's correct. Whoever holds the copyright gets to collect the profits.
Should a company like Disney go into public domain 70 years after the death of Roy Disney? He and his brother (Walt) built this company up and turned it into a valuable piece of property. Why should their work be allowed to be passed on forever and an author's work not?
Like I said, I make no distinction between physical and intellectual property.
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That is an intellectually consistent argument - it is hard to claim that someone has a moral right to IP that is superior to the creator's right.
Although your scheme would need a mechanism to deal with "abandoned" copyrights, as we do with other forms of abandoned property.