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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Everything is government granted; even basic human rights. Copyright is an arbitrary concept applied to a certain type of property. Nothing sacrosanct about it.
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You are claiming that there exists a natural right to copyright. You can't then turn around and say that everything is government granted.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Which of these copyrighted books was never made into a movie?
- Gone With the Wind
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Godfather
- Jaws
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What's your point? I never claimed that adaptations could not be made from works that were under copyright. If copyright is eternal, once the rights holder can no longer be contacted, no adaptations can be made. Even if we suppose that the rights holder will be able to be contacted in perpetuity, that would mean the rights holder would be able to dictate how the work is interpreted for eternity.
It is funny that you mention Farhenheit 451. All those people preserving all those book, a right which you would deny them. In the meantime, I'll keep defending books from the bookburners.