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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Copyright is not property, is an a right, an ability granted to the holder for a limited period of time which extends beyond the original holders life.
You wish it to be property, but it's currently not. And you can most assuredly argue for it to be treated as such, but you can not claim that it is to back your claim that it should be.
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That's just a silly position to take. It is property...intellectual property...which is a type of PROPERTY.
And the same forces that have put and are arguing to put more "temporariness" on copyright....could JUST as easily put time limits on ANY kind of property.
Inheritance tax is just one mechanism by which "collective opinion" can be use to remove property from an individual to "the public". There are others. There are even times and places which deny the concept of personal property at all.
There is nothing inherent in ANY concept of property. It's all consensus and political force (and sometimes actual force).