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Originally Posted by kennyc
Saying "of course" has nothing to do with 'begging the question'
Products of my labors are inherently mine, it's my choice what to do with them.
Forget copyright law, I'm not talking about copyright law. The law is ephemeral and varies from place to place and time to time. It is now time for many of the outdated concepts in our current law to change in light of intellectual properties.
I'm talking about fundamental rights to my property and of other ethical moral beings doing what is right with regard to that.
If you take something that is mine without my permission, you have stolen from me and you are a thief.
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And the fundamental rights to "your" property end when you sell it. Then the only "rights" you may have thereafter are those granted by a law for a limited time, with other limitation built-in as part of that limited grant.
And this grant was not created for your benefit, but for the long-term benefit of the society granting it. Your "moral" rights, as you phrase them
end when you sell the property. Then they become the rights of the purchaser. Why? Because these are the fundamental rules of property since time immemorial.