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Old 03-26-2010, 09:02 AM   #129
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First example:

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A local convenience store buys a carton of candy bars...
That is, they acquired the property of a physical good. Stealing the candy bars is indeed a deprivation of property.

Next one.

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I write a feasibility study for clean-up of a hazardous waste site. There is the prospect of income for me from my effort, but only if the site owner pays me for the report.
So you negotiate something like, well, a contract, and tell him "you pay me this" and it's up to him to accept your price or not. If he doesn't pay, he's breaking a contract. Did I mention that honoring contracts is what splits barbarians and states from civilised people?

The same goes for the literary author: if s/he has made a contract where he receives money for sales of his works, the contract is to be honored or he can sue or he or she can bring his works somewhere else.

Copyright does only provide an expectation of income due to the artificial scarcity it generates. That scarcity being artificial, it can be overcome at any time, given that one has the right tools to do it. As you may know, property of things that are not scarce for human needs is irrelevant, for property is no more than a form of organizing scarce ressources.

Copyright, as I stated before, is only useful so that big publishers can maintain subsidies for their inefficient business models and so that bureaucrats can milk off more taxes. The author sees the mouse's share of the booty, thus it's clear that the actual system en vogue is not for the benefit of authors.
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