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Originally Posted by leebase
Society has the stories available for purchase. That's the good.
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Except a lot of stories, memoirs, histories, etc. are *not* available for purchase, because they were published decades ago, aren't in public domain yet, and are decaying in hard copy.
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Why should there ever be a time when society takes possession of the rights holder's intellectual property any more than any other type of property? Why shouldn't the heirs of the author inherit the value like every other type of property....subject to the same taxes as any other property?
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As discussed above, property can help resolve disputes over rivalrous or scarce goods, but it can create disputes when expanded to non-rivalrous or non-scarce goods like stories, ideas, and so on.
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Fiction is not like medicine or mechanical contrivances where there is only SO MANY ways to accomplish a task.
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If 1st-person accounts, memoirs, histories, and so on are lost, other people can't just create new ones in place of the old.