Since the great majority of copyrights are owned by the upper oligarchy it is only a matter of time before they buy out any remaining copyrights down the food chain and pass laws to make copyrights property in perpetuity to heirs and descendants.
“Since the great majority of copyrights are owned by the upper oligarchy it is only a matter of time before they buy out any remaining copyrights down the food chain and pass laws to make copyrights property in perpetuity to heirs and descendants.”
I don’t know and I don’t care who owns most copyrights, the fact is they ain’t got no right to a life time + 70 years monopoly. The propose of congress having the power to allow copyrights for a LIMITED peroid of time is to promote the progress of since and technology.
Not to stifle it by either securing to a few permanent rights to milk their creation not only throughout their own life but their children’s and probably grand-children’s life as well..
There has to be some incentive for theses folks and their children to get back to work inventing, and creating MORE things. Do they wish to corrupt and stifle their children’s creative need?
I’m not a fan of taxing inheritance but technology is not property, property is is physical objects. Property has mass. and while property can be reproduced, its reproduction can be sold and once sold it is no longer your property.
The securing to a person a monopoly right to the reproduction and sale of any property is an unnatural phenomenon that must be as limited in it’s duration as it is necessary to incentive the creation of new Technology.
In my mind the life time of the inverter or 30 years is the absolute limit! If you can’t make a good profit off your creation in that time you never will.
I am also open to the possibility of doing it on a dollar value basis, you got exclusive right until you get x amount of dollars in sales.