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Old 07-20-2019, 04:46 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
Society is rewarded by having fiction. This is not like medical patents where after 20 years, everyone can make aspirin. Something I favor. There are not an infinite number of ways to do what aspirin does. Society never needs to own someone else's fiction work
By that logic, society shouldn't be paying to protect someone else's fiction either. It either has value or it doesn't. If it doesn't have value, then society shouldn't be protecting it, if it does have value, then it should go into public domain after a time to pay society for protecting it.
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