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Originally Posted by LazyScot
I'd love to have this poll split down by (published?) authors and non-authors. I think that might surprise us -- I wonder if there is anyone from the Society of Authors (or the non-UK equivalents) hereabouts.
Like most, each month I have to pay a fair amount for the house I live in (bear with me here, please!). Now it is possible that the builder/architect/... is/are dead. Does that mean I don't have to pay for the house? Does the house become public domain? So some artefacts maintain value after the creator dies, and we see no problem with this. If we invest all the value solely in the physical instance, and nothing in its creation, then we have no motivation of innovation, creation, science, technology, ...
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That architect of yours has been allowed to build an house by the first Neanderthal man who built an house for the first time around 20.000 BC?
Or did he just
stole other's
Intellectual Property?
Have you got permission to publish a post about that house from the IP owner?
When you bought it, did you got the right to photograph it, or there's an extra amount to be paid for that?
Do the license permit you to show that house (whose design is architect's property) to other people? Or you have to blind every guest passing by?
Your house is not public domain. The idea to put a roof over four walls is. See the difference?