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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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