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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
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.
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Because in this age of sound-bytes, a long winded (even if precise) label gets ignored and the a short tag replaces it. So which short tag do you want to use? Property, will all the open-endedness of ownership implied, or lease, with the inherent concept of expiration imbedded in the tag. If everybody started talking about intellectual leases instead of intellectual property, the stretching of copyright for the sole benefit of the copyright holder would show up as the land grab it is, to the common man...
Words matter....