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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Not really, those people take away other individuals' rights. And unlike creators of copyrighted works, they haven't contributed to the process.
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No, not really. They didn't have rights before copyright was established by statute; copyright is the giving up of some rights to a creator, in the hopes that creators will be more inclined to create. This is perfectly embodied in the copyright clause of the U.S. Constitution:
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To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
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Again, all of this is just trying to equate copyright with property rights, which is incorrect in the law and overly simplistic. You and TubeMonkey or mistaking the analogies between intellectual property and tangible property as if it were the thing itself (essentially going from "IP is like property" to "IP is property"); it's like mistaking the map for the actual road.