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Re:The National Emergency Library is a gift to readers every... by krapp on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:44AM (#22758297)
It's not a red herring, so much as a different philosophical question. Why should a copyright owner have exclusive, perpetual ownership over an intellectual property?
Re:The National Emergency Library is a gift to readers every... by kethinov on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:39AM (#22759474)
Why shouldn't they?

What gives someone a moral right to produce a derivative work of something I create and make money doing it? (I think people seem to forget that legalizing noncommercial infringement also legalizes noncommercial derivative works.)

Re:The National Emergency Library is a gift to readers every... by fjeifisjf on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:00AM (#22759767)
it's a natural right. Or it isn't. There's no rationale either way, it's a chosen axiom.