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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by comte7092 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:06PM (#35281271)
You’re placing an artificial requirement on the definition in order to support your argument.

Copyright may be owned, bought, sold, transferred or otherwise discharged in the same manner that any other form of property is. Nothing about property inherently implies such claim exists in perpetuity.

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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by JohnFen on Friday March 24, 2023 @10:55AM (#35289848)
Ok, I'll grant you and dragonwriter that.

I was interpreting "property right" at a different level of abstraction than you. I was thinking it was referring to the thing that is copyrighted as being the "property", not the copyright itself.

Changing my frame of reference up a level of abstraction puts us in agreement, I think.

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