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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Registered ideas are a form of property. We want a society where everyone, including writers, has a chance to make a living by one's work. Stop chasing windmills (and rant about permanent copyrights, nobody here is arguing in favor of that), why should a writer work for free when you don't? The way to advance society is not by ensuring that you get a free lunch. Society would never have these works without them, so how can writers owe society something, other than taxes?
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Again someone tries to frame the argument about free (beer) stuff. I didn't say anyone had to work for free, I said copyright needs to enhance the public domain. After a period of time in which the person who holds the copyright can try to turn a profit the copyright needs to expire so things can be used freely (libre) by the next person who wants to create. The copyright peroid needs to be as short as possible while still getting people to actually create things. When you argue for long copyrights and telling people they can still create as long as they pay up you defeat the purpose because copyright is not for the artist it is there to get more stuff into the public domain.
The statue of ANNE where this all came from broke a permanent monopoly publishers had over books and said after a period of time its open to anyone. Not protect writers, but to break monopolies. A 70 year copyright defeats the purpose a life+70 year copyright is absurd and it takes something from the people without paying THEM for it. Who's courts are being used, who's library of congress, who's FBI is putting up the warning on dvds, who's customs and border patrol are seizing bootlegs? The people pay for copyright with the understanding that the public domain will grow in exchange. That just isn't happening right now
So again, why should I respect copyright when the people who profit from it aren't holding to their side of things and growing the public domain?