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Originally Posted by kennyc
Products of my labors are inherently mine, it's my choice what to do with them.
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Yes, it's your choice what to do with them. But once you release these "products" (publish your novel, let people play or listen to your music, etc.), other people have it without depriving you of your product (this is unlike tangible objects). It's now their choice what to do with it.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
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 It is now time for many of the outdated concepts in our current law to change in light of intellectual properties.
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That's my point. Once the copyright law (a malum prohibitum restriction) is out of the picture, there is nothing morally wrong in my playing the music that I have heard, in drawing a picture that I've seen, in sharing a book's contents with a friend.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
If you take something that is mine without my permission, you have stolen from me and you are a thief.
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We are back to where we've started. In our scenario, nobody takes anything from you that you have not willingly released to me or somebody else.