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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
My extend it forever sentiment is based on one factor - property. If someone creates a work, they should be allowed to keep it forever.
I'm at odds with current laws on property rights and that places me in an extremely small minority around here. To me, property is property. I make no distinction between tangible and intangible property.
Since there's little chance that my views would ever get enacted into law, I strongly favor extensions as the best way to achieve perpetual copyright.
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Intangible property is an impossibility. It's like a solid gas. Copyright is simply a government granted monopoly for the right to copy a work of art, no more, no less. What you are saying is that you support the right of the government to grant a person the right to control the copying of a work of art forever.
Interestingly, the original granting of copyrights had nothing to do with the actual creator of the art. People were granted a copyright on the bible. The good thing about copyrights back then is they were granted at the whim of the crown. What the king could grant, he could take back. Such grants frequently did not survive the granting king.