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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Your analogy doesn't work. The correct analogy would be if the company being granted the drilling lease actually put the oil there in the first place. The author created the resource, not nature or society. Without the author the book wouldn't exist, and even under copyright a book still benefits society. So the least society can do is protect the author's interests.
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There are no good analogies, the type of "property" as so different. Does society benefit from copyright? Yes it does. That is why society granted it in the first place. And society
did grant it, it doesn't exist with society. (Whereas society can exist without copyright).
The benefit to society of copyright is not creation.
But dead people don't create!. That's the failure of Life + definitions, people who don't create are getting a free ride off of the purpose of copyright. I prefer fixed term. I'd say 70 years is about right. Very few would outlive it, keeps bookkeeping simple and protect the offspring of those who die young...
But 70, not life + 70...