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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
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.
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I support neither, I support the idea of a system where creativity is encouraged because whatever the personal motivations for creation are, it benefits the whole human race. In this care the way to promote the progress of the useful arts would be to allow creators to limited terms of copyright. The deal is, if you spend some time writing books or painting we'll let you control who gets to make copies for a little while, by the way you might try selling the copies or giving someone else license to do that then there's a chance you'll make a little money for creating cool huh? Then when the copyright term expires the useful arts will have progressed, society will have something else added to the cultural heritage and the next person can dip into the public domain mix in their own stuff and repeat the process.
Those who create dip into the public domain even ones who don't do it on purpose. Every biblical allusion, every word or phrase Shakespeare made up, every reference to a vampire everything comes from somewhere built up over thousands of years if you're not willing to give back to the public domain don't take things from it. Cinderella and Snow white and the lion king and the little mermaid the hunchback of notre dame and pretty much every other damned thing disney has released is a rehash of something from the public domain, why on earth do you think it unreasonable to after 56 years release their often minor changes back into the wild?