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Originally Posted by arjaybe
Copyright began as a reciprocal bargain. Maybe we should withhold our half until people remember what they agreed to.
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Yes....I agree that history exists. I’m not describing current laws and I’m not describing historical precedent.
I’m advocating that the concept of intellectual property all by itself is a good thing for society.
I see a reason for limits on patents. There is only one chemical composition that is Aspirin. If you are the first to discover it, you get an x year monopoly. Somebody else would have eventually discovered it....it’s science/medicine.
Not so with fiction. There are endless ways to make up stories.