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Re:In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate S... by fineline on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @03:21AM (#8141416)
To decline an opportunity (choosing to bequeath to nobody) is not the same as to be denied that same opportunity. The latter could be discrimination, the former case could not, as who would be the discriminator?
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Re:In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate S... by baddox on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @01:34PM (#8143689)
If any denial of opportunity counts as discrimination, then why discriminate against everyone who didn't write the book by prohibiting them from making copies? Copyright is inherently discriminatory, and any specific implementation of a copyright system will discriminate in certain ways against certain people.
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