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Originally Posted by ApK
It deprives them of their right to control their work. It deprives them of protection under the law. It deprives them of the peace of mind that a society of law brings to the people.
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Let me fix that for you, change right to privilege. Copyright isn't an actual right, just something created one day in 1709 to add to the public domain.
If it were a right it'd be the sort of thing you could do in the absence of legislation. Law or no law you CAN shoot your mouth off about anything free speech is a natural right. In the absence of legislation you can't do jack about someone making a copy or distributing it.
And in the US there's certainly no constitutional obligation to have copyright at all. Congress is granted the power not the requirement to make copyright laws, if they want to, for a limited time, to promote the progress of science and the useful arts.