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Old 02-03-2009, 12:20 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm sorry, but you're just not "getting" the fundamental point - that writing a book is just as much "work" as doing any other job, and to try to use 300 year old ideas of "limited monopolies" to pretend that it isn't is a completely outdated concept. The law needs to be changed to grant the creators of intellectual property the same rights as the creators of "physical" property.
So are you suggesting the elimination of automatic reversion to public domain requiring that the owner of the copyright (of course it doesn't have to be the original author since property can be legally transferred) can only place the work into public domain? Public domain is thought to benefit society as a whole.

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