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To: zeugma

What do you have against property rights?


99 posted on 11/12/2011 10:01:14 AM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: dfwgator
What do you have against property rights?

The "property rights" created under copyright law is an artificial construct with a purpose and restriction spelt out in the constitution. The purpose was to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" and was to be secured for same "for limited times". Neither of these purposes are served by a copyright that is essentially perpetual in nature. The original copyright term as 14 years with the ability of the author to extend this by one 14 year term. That is a limited, and reasonable time. What we have now, which is essentially eternal, because the Disney corporation (among others), buy off enough congresscritters to extend it every 20 years is neither limited, nor reasonable.

The natural state of all "intellectual property" is in the public domain. If you don't want it to not be there, you are perfectly within your rights to keep it to yourself. The founders understood this, and we, sadly like so many things, have forgotten it because of the endless drumbeat of propaganda by media companies and people like yourself.

HAND

169 posted on 11/12/2011 6:55:33 PM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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