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Originally Posted by tompe
Do you mean a positive right or a negative right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativ...ositive_rights
And what does it mean to have such a right in practice? If it is a negative right and an opportunity does not exist then you do not have the opportunity. But since you wrote "be given" I assume you meant a positive right or? |
Given the definition from that wiki entry it would be a negative right, the right that others don't take his/her work without the writer's permission. That does not guarantee the writer can make a living, but that he or she could make a living if others consider him or her good enough so that they would want to read his works. By the very action of taking the work for free
the opportunity is being denied. This is the same for a physical product. If you invent something and I just copy it, can I argue it never would have sold anyway?