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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
We need copyright, I just disagree on the rational.
We need copyright as we've decided that creators, businesses etc. should have their creations and the right to sell them protected.
What you're talking about is why copyrights don't last for every and get passed down to heirs etc. It was decided that there is worth inthe public domain so that's why copyrights do expire.
But it's not why we have copyrights. We have copyrights as we live in a largely capitalist world with a large legal emphasis on protecting people's rights to make money. That copyright expires is a concession that there is value to the public domain and those rights shouldn't get passed down through multiple generations.
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Whether you agree with it or not, the rational as has been explained earlier
is the reason copyright exists. Get over it.
Frankly, I have a harsh answer to long copyrights...TAXES! You want copyright forever, then you have to pay taxes on it every year, whether you get any money out of it or not. The longer you hold it, the higher they go. We tax land, income, estates, ect. It's about time copyright got is a** taxed off... you don't pay, into the public domain it goes...