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Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy by 4bpp on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:57AM (#38805606)
A landlord developer who builds and furnishes an apartment complex with the intent of collecting passive income on it for a long time also creates something, but that is close to a central example of rent seeking.
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Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy by ChadNauseam on Friday December 29, 2023 @10:06AM (#38805706)
Just because rent is involved doesn't make it what is normally referred to as "rent seeking", and I don't think your example would qualify by the traditional definition. From Google:

> Rent seeking is an economic concept that occurs when an entity seeks to gain wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. An example of rent seeking is when a company lobbies the government for grants, subsidies, or tariff protection.

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Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy by 4bpp on Saturday December 30, 2023 @07:58AM (#38814952)
Ah, I see. After looking it up some more, I'm also quite convinced that I misapprehended the definition. My bad.
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Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy by ethanbond on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:58PM (#38808022)
No it quite literally is not.
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Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy by HDThoreaun on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:08PM (#38807354)
You don’t understand what rent seeking is.
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