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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Copyright was created in order to guarantee a creator a financial benefit from his or her creation for a set period of time, in order to give them the financial incentive to create in the first place (instead of blowing it off and continuing to till their fields), and to benefit society with their creations. No more and no less.
It was necessary because most potential creators could not afford to stop working and lose income in order to create things they would not profit from... and the public wanted more invention.
It was wanted because everyone benefited from it--with the exception of those who would steal other people's ideas for their own profit, in the name of their own greed, which most other people agreed had abdicated the right to benefit.
There's a reason why copyright has lasted for as long as it has: It's been proven over time to work better than any other method for stimulating creation. |
And it was limited to a relatively short period of time to encourage more creation.
Not to provide a perpetuity to the heirs and assigns of the long dead creator.....