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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Because the copyright holder is gaining special protection by the very copyright. Without the copyright, an author would have a very hard time finding a way to profit from their work. With copyright, they have plenty of time to try and profit. The social contract that allows copyright to exist in the first place also ensures that copyright only exists for a limited time.
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Bill
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That is just my point. It is unfair that to consider copyright to be "special protection". If you make a chair to sell you also need society's protection (or else someone could steal it or cheat you), there should not be a difference. Just because the product is different, you don't deserve less. The social contract is a smokescreen, since there is no such social contract for others.