View Single Post
Old 01-03-2014, 11:20 AM   #101
shalym
Wizard
shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.shalym ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
shalym's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,058
Karma: 54671821
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: New England
Device: PW 1, 2, 3, Voyage, Oasis 2 & 3, Fires, Aura HD, iPad
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sil_liS View Post
...The "special protection" is that the author gets to keep the copyright after selling the work. Without copyright law the situation would be like selling a chair: you make the chair/write a story, trade it for money, and if you want to make more money you make another chair/write another story.
IMO, This is a perfect definition of the difference between real property and intellectual property, right here.

Shari
shalym is offline   Reply With Quote