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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Kali, who made copyright? The public, through it's government. It granted all copyrights. It set the terms and conditions of copyrights. To claim the public aren't stakeholders is ridiculous. They set the rules!
You state that -
"Public domain is not ownership. No one owns or controls a work that's in public domain. The public does not pay anyone when a work goes into public domain."
You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope. The public domain is the natural state of creation. Copyright exists as an artificial ownership, a limited monopoly, to be precise, granted to encourage the creation of new works. That creation was premised upon the good of the public, not the good of the creators. The public receives it's benefit at the end of the copyright period. The creator receives the economic benefit from the limited monopoly, that is his/her encouragement.
That's the way it's always been since modern Western copyright. See The Statue of Anne (1714), The U.S. Constitution, or read McCauley (1842).
In the end, though, you can make any law you want. People will only follow them if they are perceived to be fair and just. Otherwise, they will break them. Often privately, but they will break them. And copyright, as it is currently envisioned, fails the fair and just perception.
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Agreed. 100%
(I'm just annoyed I don't have your eloquence).