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Old 06-02-2012, 09:50 AM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by CamTata View Post
Karl Marx thought the abolition of property rights was a good idea too, but history has shown otherwise. The welfare component of your argument is similar to the socialist idea of eliminating private property for the presumed public good.
an exclusive right to make copies of something is not a property right

Copyright takes away normal property rights that would normally exist for something (content) and replaces them with licences


If i buy a chair i don't have to ask the chair manufacture for permission to use that chair in any way i want.

I could even use it as a model to design a replacement chair.

Copyright takes those normal property rights away and replaces it with a permission based system.


so you are the one who is actually arguing against property rights when you argue for copyright.
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