[Swordmaker]

While i'm on this line, I am also against extending "intellectual property" to 70 years beyond the death of the author. Sure, it makes some people money, but I do not regard rent seeking as a legitimate form of capitalism. It is of the sort I regard as "crony" capitalism, and we ought not be having it.

As an author, a creator of intellectual property, I strongly disagree with you. Why should my property rights to my intellectual property creation disappear with my death and my heirs, my children NOT get my work that I have worked hard to create with my imagination and skill and built with the intent that it be passed on to them merely because YOU want it without having worked for it? Why should you have for free what I worked for? Why should my children be taxed of their entire inheritance because YOU want the free use of it? What a socialist idea.

[DiogenesLamp]

As an author, a creator of intellectual property, I strongly disagree with you. Why should my property rights to my intellectual property creation disappear with my death and my heirs, my children NOT get my work that I have worked hard to create with my imagination and skill and built with the intent that it be passed on to them merely because YOU want it without having worked for it? Why should you have for free what I worked for? Why should my children be taxed of their entire inheritance because YOU want the free use of it?

And why shouldn't the same idea apply to patents?