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You should have a say in who gets those future profits
It is your idea/property, you should have a say in who inherits it, profits from it, and controls it.
Where on Earth did you get that?
We're talking about copyright, you idiot.
We're not discussing the inheritance of real property.
Two very different issues in reality and in the courts.
You should have a say in who gets those future profits
How can I have any say in who collects all my posts from here on USMB, binds them in a volume, and sells them in their store after I'm dead? And how would they be depriving me of anything at all or harming me in any way by doing so?
It is your idea/property, you should have a say in who inherits it, profits from it, and controls it.
I do. Then I die. Then, by your reasoning, the rest of America can never see their Constitution because I was a FF and we wrote it and it still belongs to us.
How can you inherit an idea or a concept?
I can hand you my car and house keys before I die. How can i hand you the words I spoke or wrote 30 years ago that are floating around the web, written in books around the world, and resonating in people's heads?
Because the ideas, concepts, and words were never expressed in that way before, and thus you own the copyright for that exact pattern. If someone can express them in a completely different method, then they can apply for another copyright.
But you don't exist anymore. You haven't existed for decades. How can you own anything at all?
I know what intellectual property is, dumbass.
And it's not the same physical property.
The courts draw distinctions between them- and within intellectual property between patents, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Where on Earth did you get that?
We're talking about copyright, you idiot.
We're not discussing the inheritance of real property.
Two very different issues in reality and in the courts.
copyrights are property. They can be used as collateral for finiancial deals and such.
Think of it like inheriting shares in a corporation when your family member dies. You are gaining shares in an idea, book, song, whatever. It is your right to get a say in who makes profits off of it.So the entire world should be barred from accessing the Second Treatise without paying some random person who's done absolutely nothing because their great-great uncle wrote it?
Do we really need a copyright to be in effect for 70 years after you die? Does your grandchild deserve royalties for a book you wrote 100 years ago? How does retroactively extending copyright for The Great Gatsby promote science and useful arts and stand to what the F wrote about ex post facto laws in the Constitution?
I can hand you the keys to my home.
How can I hand you words that are floating in other peoples' heads?
We're not discussing the inheritance of real property. The two matters are not the same in reality or in the law.
You should have a say in who gets those future profits
How can I have any say in who collects all my posts from here on USMB, binds them in a volume, and sells them in their store after I'm dead? And how would they be depriving me of anything at all or harming me in any way by doing so?
It is your idea/property, you should have a say in who inherits it, profits from it, and controls it.
I do. Then I die. Then, by your reasoning, the rest of America can never see their Constitution because I was a FF and we wrote it and it still belongs to us.
It's not my problem if you don't copyright your stuff.
I died 20 years ago. Or 30. Or 70.What if you manage to actually come up with an original thought? Would you want that to go to someone else who makes money off it and ignores your contribution?
How can you inherit an idea or a concept?How can you own anything 70 years after you die?
so you do not believe in inheritance?
You support 100% inheritance tax?
I can hand you my car and house keys before I die. How can i hand you the words I spoke or wrote 30 years ago that are floating around the web, written in books around the world, and resonating in people's heads?
So when things go into the public domain, that's evil socialism stealing dead people's hard-earned work and denying people who did jack shit what they deserve for someone else's hard work?
How can you own anything 70 years after you die?Why should your right to own what you created ever expire?