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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Zero sum thinking, such as you are expressing, negates the idea of creation. "What you take I lose", and other redistributionist concepts make no sense in the context of copyright or patent. The many have no right to forcibly take the fruits of any individual's labor.
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The irony of this phrasing, as with the earlier comment it echoes, is that the individual who wants to exercise their right of copyright is essentially asking the many in the form of the state to use force to get others to comply to artificial restrictions. In a world without copyright it takes little or no force to copy the expression of an idea, but it does take force to stop people doing so.
Therefore it's entirely appropriate for the many to ask what, in exchange for the use of its collective might, they should get in return.