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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Tompe, I have been thinking....(The SWAT team and the FBI have been notified  ). Everybody keeps thinking in terms of intellectual "property". I think that we should use a different term. Since it's is only a temporary grant of monopoly, we should use the term "Lease". It grasps the underlying reality better than "property", and even a politician understands what a lease is.... |
But that's not quite right either. If works rightfully belong in the public domain and are only temporarily granted to creators, then who is leasing them? The government? The people? And while the idea is to motivate creators to make more, they don't have to, so they don't have to "pay" for the "lease"...
How about we call it exactly what it is? A temporary (lol) government protected monopoly on the right to copy works created by someone.