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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
That would be the same as an author renting out his writing tools... The farm is NOT the product a farmer makes his money with! It's the tool he needs to make produce which can then be sold.
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Well, you can find minor differences with any example. You could also argue that copyright is the tool that allows you to create additional legal copies of the book.
Anyway, the rental building still works -- the building is what makes the money. And we can argue about minute differences (and whether they are important or not) for days. Tubemonkey's point was that you can pass on "profit creating" property to your offspring for an unlimited time --- why not IP? We know that a lot of people here won't agree with this premise, but he does make a point.
Not that I want to speak up in favor of unlimited copyright terms myself, but a case can be made. Rather looking forward to some free Hemingway, next year. But will the world be a better place because you can legally get his books for free? I don't think so.