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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   trag wrote:   
   > On Oct 27, 5:17 pm, Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >> SFTVratings sent the following on 10/26/2009 8:11 PM:   
   >   
   >>> There should be a time limit.  The   
   >>> original 1790 act was for 14 years + possible renewal for another 14   
   >>> years.  That's MORE than enough time for a novelist to earn money off   
   >>> his creation.   
   >> So you would presume to tell a novelist how much money he should be   
   >> allowed to make off of his work?  Are you also a fan of planned   
   >> economies, when it comes right down to it?   
   >   
   > You are assuming there's some natural property right in intellectual   
   > works.  There is not.  It's not something you can sit on and defend   
   > and say this is mine, as you can with a rock, unless you never show it   
   > to anyone else.  If you want to show it around and you want property   
   > rights, then you get what you're granted.   The *only* reason you have   
   > *any* rights in your shared ideas is because you happen to live in a   
   > somewhat enlightened society.   
      
   Whereas a FULLY enlightened society, of course, would not hand out such   
   mercantile privileges like candy in preference to having a free market.   
      
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