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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   Thanatos sent the following on 10/28/2009 6:26 PM:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Thanatos sent the following on 10/27/2009 5:48 PM:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>>  Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> SFTVratings sent the following on 10/26/2009 8:11 PM:   
   >>>>> On Oct 26, 5:09 pm, Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >>>>> I don't get to sit on my fat ass and collect money off   
   >>>>> works I created 40 years ago.   
   >>>> Sucks to not be creative, eh?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Neither should you.   
   >>>> Why not?   
   >>> The appropriate question is why you think you should. What makes your   
   >>> work any more special than anyone else's?   
   >> I don't presume any such thing.  I leave that up to the free market and   
   >> the potential buyer of my work to decide.  That's what a free market is   
   >> all about, as no one is forced to buy my 40-year-old material or   
   >> contribute to me "sit[ting] on my fat ass."   
   >>   
   >>>> So you would presume to tell a novelist how much money he should be   
   >>>> allowed to make off of his work?   
   >>> No, we'd presume to tell a novelist that he only gets a state-granted   
   >>> monopoly on making money off his work for a limited period of time and   
   >>> after that he has to compete with everyone else. If he can still rake in   
   >>> the big bucks, that's wonderful. No one's gonna stop him.   
   >> Again, no one is advocating monopolizing writing or book publishing, so   
   >> I don't buy any "monopoly"-related arguments.  *Everyone* is free to   
   >> create *new* songs and movies and characters and works of art.  And   
   >> they're free to do it any time they want.   
   >>   
   >> The whole "monopoly" argument to me makes no more sense here than it   
   >> would if someone were to suggest that, say, 20 years is long enough for   
   >> me to have a "monopoly" on my own home, after which time anyone who   
   >> wants to have a free place to live can break in and take over my den and   
   >> one of the upstairs bedrooms.   
   >   
   > You apparently don't understand the distinction between infinite goods   
   > and scarcity.   
      
   Feel free to explain how you see it applying here.   
      
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   Jim Gysin   
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