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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Actually it is authors who are granting fair use exceptions to society. Why would authors need society to graciously assign them the privilege of getting the rights to something they have created?
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Because otherwise everyone else would be free to kick their teeth out if they try to interfere with him singing the same song.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
The kind of society, where the individual is at the mercy of the government to decide if what is his is really his, that is your ideal?
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Actually, the government is essential for the idea of property to exist. When there's nothing to maintain common set of law, the only things that are mine are those I can protect myself.
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The author has created the work, by natural law it is his.
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The society has created the author, so everything created by author belongs to society.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
It is the authors who bestow upon society the right to the works after the protection period expires (yes, I know life +70 is too long) and to certain fair use exceptions in exchange for protection against illegal use by others.
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It is the society that grants authors the privilege of being the only one who can copy their work exclusively, for certain amount of time, in order to encourage the author to create (and since it no longer has the desired effect in the age of Internet, copyright should be abolished, but that's my personal opinion).