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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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Don't bother engaging him. He makes the same arguments in every thread like this (arguments which generally start at "herp" and end at "derp"), including his steam engine example. Different posters have wasted their time pulling apart his arguments and explaining what copyright is and isn't at law and in history, and he just keeps coming back to the same conclusion that he can't support, but that he firmly believes.