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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by matheusmoreira on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:00PM (#34076479)
That doesn't justify giving them lifetime government enforced monopolies. If they want to keep getting paid, they should have to keep creating new works. Anything else is rent seeking. Having to give them monopolies at all is bad enough but the current state of copyright is completely unacceptable.

Also, their children are owed exactly nothing by society. At most they should be able to inherit still valid copyrights with no change to their durations. Heirs getting a completely new two decade monopoly just so they could "benefit" is absurd and intolerable.

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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by wutwutwutwut on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:22PM (#34076599)
How long have you lived in your house? Can I have it now?
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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by matheusmoreira on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:26PM (#34076631)
Really? You're gonna compare artificially scarce imaginary property with real property on the real world like land and physical possessions?
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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by wutwutwutwut on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @02:20PM (#34085137)
> real property on the real world like land and physical possessions

That's "real" only because the government enforces it. My point was that the comment I replied to was ridiculous.

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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by matheusmoreira on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @04:57PM (#34086918)
It's "real" because it exists in the real world. It's naturally scarce as a result since two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. There's only so much land available.

It's a completely different matter compared to imaginary artificially scarce cultural property which boils down to ownership of unique numbers. That's what's ridiculous.

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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by jennnyy on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:49AM (#34078200)
You're free to make an exact copy of it whenever you like :)
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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by wutwutwutwut on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:31PM (#34086013)
At least where I live, copying a house would not be allowed since the specification falls under copyright. So no?
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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by oblio on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:23AM (#34078845)
Nope, but you can download it.
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