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Originally Posted by Iphinome
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.
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That's not the correct distinction. It's legal right, protected by law. The only difference between it and a natural right is that it also happened to be bestowed by law. No different than the RIGHT to vote.
A privilege is different. It can be taken a away without due process.
A funny thing here is that many people treat the RIGHT of copyright protection as a mere privilege requested by others, which they are free to ignore, and many people treat the PRIVILEGE of driving on public roads as some kind of natural right of theirs that cannot be denied, even by the due process of a DUI conviction, no matter how dangerously they abuse the privilege.
Maybe that's not so funny. The commonality there seems to be that a lot of people see OTHER people's interests as optional, but their OWN interests as absolutes.
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