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Originally Posted by kennyc
An author has inherent rights to what he produces and the copyright laws were created to protect those rights.
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If you believe he have an inherent right or not depends on if you believe in inherent rights. Personally I do not think inherent rights can exist or is a concept that is coherrent. And copyright was not created to protect those rights.
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But the core intent is to allow the creator of intellectual property to share their work while being protected/provided with a means of gaining benefit from those works.
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Yes, that is correct. So why did you write the paragraph above that you know people have very different opinions about?