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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Yes, they were. Let's go back before copyright, say 1000 years ago. If I owned a copy of a book, I could take that copy to a scribe and pay him to make another copy. I would have that right because the book was my property.
Then, the printing press was invented. Suddenly, it was easy to make multiple copies of a book. Publishers would buy a book from a competitor and run off some copies to sell. This was legal before copyright.
After copyright was invented, this was no longer possible. You couldn't buy a book and turn out copies. Thus, one of your rights over your property was taken away.
If I am wrong, then please explain what rights copyright law gives me that I did not already have.
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Let me see if I understand you: your thesis seems to be that copyright law removed the right you once had to make copies of books. So it did. It reserved rights to the creator, who could then choose to grant certain rights to others.
Essentially, copyright acknowledges that the creator owns the content, and has the right to control how the content is distributed. Copyrights are time-limited, and expire. How long copyrights last varies depending upon local law.
Since we have had copyright since long before either of us was born, you have
never had the right to copy the content, unless the copyright holder explicitly permitted it, by something like the Creative Commons license.
It's nonsense to talk about rights being taken away that you never had in the first place.
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Ponder this: When a copyright is issued, it protects the content. We agree on this. This one copyright covers the content when it is on paper and when it is in an ebook. It's the same copyright.
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Maybe, maybe not. Consider the case of "compilation copyright".
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Dennis