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Originally Posted by Iphinome
The public domain existed before 1976 therefore it is unreasonable to claim it only exists to keep available the work of the dead.
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It just means the law was wrong before. And hopefully has been permanently corrected to protect creators rights, and let the public domain only serve to keep works available when there's no longer a financial incentive to keep the work in print.
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Also you missed my point, people who aren't me can go to a public school it doesn't mean they owe me something for doing so at least no more than someone who went to a private school. There's still a system of laws and a social contract.
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No, but they and their family etc. also paid taxes, they're benefiting because they paid taxes. If you don't go to public school, you just decided to not take advantage of the privileged you earned by paying taxes.
They don't owe you anything as they paid taxes as well. Sure, some pay more taxes than others, but that's just the nature of living in a society that has public schools and other public entities. Not everyone pays the same share so their kids can go to school k-12 for free, or go to state universities for very cheap tuition etc.
But that's just completely separate to the issue of whether creator's should own the rights to their property for their full lifetimes or not.
That just comes down to whether you support an economic system were people create works with the aim to make money and have rights to those works for as long as their alive (unless they choose to give those rights up and just give the work away). Or a system where work is done for the common good, and creators at best get to keep the rights for only part of their lives, and not until death and beyond.
But again, we're going in circles and yet I keep responding so I'm just going to through you on ignore as I'm sure other's here are getting tired of this back and forth since we both keep saying the same stuff over and over.