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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
There's no balancing. Limited copyright is legalized theft. Books (and other works of "art") should belong to the rights holder until such time as those rights are voluntarily relinquished.
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Limited copyright can't be construed as legalized theft, because it was copyright that essentially created the notion of intellectual property in the first place.
If you want to retain perpetual rights over a work of art, then there is an easy way to do it; never publish it. Ever.
As it is, copyright is an agreement that is made between authors and the public (via the government) that provides an incentive to publish (limited exclusive rights) in return for agreeing to let the work go into the public domain. If you publish you essentially have become a party of this agreement.
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Since society has some warped view on the definition of property, I'll gladly take the extensions that keep getting tacked onto existing copyright.
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What any definition of property other than yours is warped?
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Bill