Thread: Why public domain
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Old 10-26-2019, 06:15 AM   #248
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Originally Posted by PKFFW View Post
A good point.

However, the builder does not get any rights to the building after they complete their work. Even the architect doesn't. Anyone can build an identical house whenever they like. Anyone can take the design and modify it.
You might want to do a search for "architectural copyright". Just because I paid for the house doesn't mean I have the right to copy the design.
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You can renovate the house at any time you like. You can sell it to anyone you like and the builder doesn't have any say at all. You can even make money from it by renting out rooms if you want. Etc.

If an author should have some form of control over their work for all eternity why should an architect or builder not have some form of control over their work for all eternity?
And the author doesn't get any rights to the copy of the book I bought. I can sell my copy or change it however I want. If I want to rip a page out the last page of a mystery before lending to a friend, I can. Or blackout all the swear words. But, I can't take that copy and reproduce it and sell that. Just as I can't with the design of the house.
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Yes both are simplifications.

However, I did not ignore where IP is. My very point is that copyright doesn't protect IP. It protects the right of the creator to control the work they did in expressing that IP in a very specific format.
Yes you did. There is IP involved in the house and someone did get paid to use it. Copyright is protecting the right to reproduce that IP.
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We don't pay an author to have an idea about a book. We don't protect that idea if the author never does any work to express that idea. We protect the right of the author to, in general, simplified and basic terms, make money from the work they have done.

Compare apples with apples. Compare copyright with worker's rights.
Not sure what you are saying there. Workers make a deal ahead of time to get paid for the work they do. Authors are taking a risk and doing the work hoping they will get paid later. The difference is in the contracts/laws involved. The worker is being paid per piece or hour to do work probably based on someone else's IP (just like the builder). The writer is putting out their IP, why should they not be paid as long as it is considered valuable to someone?
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