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Originally Posted by BWinmill
The term public domain is a legal construct, as are the legal ramifications. On the other hand there is no natural law regarding the ownership of property. Since the idea of the public domain reflects that, it is a much more natural state of being.
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That's my point. You will have what we call the public domain, i.e., an uncontrolled access to ideas and their expressions
without the existance of any law at all. You can't say that about copyright/patent. What I call the 'natural state' is what things default to, without any effort being placed to maintain something. A physicist might call it 'the lowest energy level'...
(There's a funny story waiting to be written about some aliens desperately trying to find one last human to sign over their I.P. rights to the aliens (under alien law) because without the signature, they can't preserve any of the human knowledge/artifiacts...And they can't find a human...)