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Originally Posted by HansTWN
It wasn't law that gave them those rights, it was just a laws that protected their rights to what was theirs in the first place. You create it, it is yours -- I agree with that statement 100%. You created it, not society.
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Unfortunately, the "what's mine is mine" isn't actually the law as it applies to copyright, no matter how much some think it should be. It was in fact the law that created copyright for the purpose of encouraging the creation of more creative works for, you guessed it, the benefit of society. The Copyright Act of 1790 in the U.S. granted creators a limited monopoly on their creative expressions of 14 years (renewable once if the creator was alive I think).
Given the long history of copyright law, it's a little silly to suddenly ignore all of that and say that copyright is only for the benefit of creators and ignore the rest of society even though copyright was/is meant to benefit society.