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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I'm in favor of copyright monopolies... for a limited time. But they don't parallel directly to physical property concerns.
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Maybe not. But (keeping in mind I was responding to a post above) why is a person who buys a house logically and morally entitled to all income that property will produce - in perpetuity, if necessary - but a person who writes a song at age 18 is *not* logically or morally entitled to whatever income that song might produce at the time the writer is 60.
I don't see a logical or moral claim for society to determine that Paul McCartney should have lost all rights to "Paperback Writer" in 1986, for example. (And, again, I know that this wasn't your argument).