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