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Originally Posted by leebase
No one is debating what IS....but what SHOULD BE
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But if you want to debate what "SHOULD BE" you need to do more than assert some condition, you have to say why it is desirable, and this means comparing the costs as well as the benefits.
Land ownership comes with responsibilities as well as rights. It costs money to run this stuff: land registries, the legal system support etc., so society demands a continual contribution of one sort or another.
Similar issues exist with copyright and other IP - it costs money to manage. What are you going to offer society in return for it helping to protect the copyright of yesterday's shopping list in perpetuity?
Tubemonkey's suggestion of copyright extensions for those that pay for it was more practical, letting the detritus (the vast majority of copyright) get discarded while actively used copyright could help pay for the costs of the system.