Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy

Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy by johnnyanmac on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:34PM (#38818245)

You very likely take out a loan from the bank, give the bank possession of the deed, and you pay off a bank in a few decades. You can very much pay it off in one lump sum, but few can afford it, and those that can won't do it anyway, because future money is cheaper than present money (overtime. There are huge fluctuations like in 2008).

Meanwhile, if you need a payment plan to pay off a book, you're in a very dark place and you probably should simply pirate it. But selling a book to person B in 20 years doesn't sound like "rent", despite the fact that I have heard that "media older than 10 years is fair game to pirate". 10 years in industry can be a step for an artist, not a career's worth of time like the original copyright law time period.

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Re:Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy by ben_w on Sunday December 31, 2023 @06:56AM (#38823444)

> if you need a payment plan to pay off a book, you're in a very dark place and you probably should simply pirate it

You appear to be arguing against buying a house/book when I wrote about building/writing?

As in, if I write a book, and then thanks to copyright law own the right to make copies (hence the name) I and my estate get to make money from every new[0] copy sold for 70 years after death. That's what I'm saying smells like rent.

[0] But not re-sold copies because first-sale doctrine, and I hope equivalents but that's a US law and I don't know what if anything is the equivalent in my jurisdiction, but I hope there is.

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