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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7756344" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>If we are gong to say you don't "own" IP you create, you only own the rights to distribute it, the same goes for everyone else.</p><p></p><p>The generation cannot take ownership, because they can't own it either! </p><p></p><p>The creator does not *owe* the generation their work, any more than a creator owes everyone a chair. You are not *entitled* to get what they created with their minds. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and if you make a chair, and you sell the chair, the person has the right to use the chair - they can sit in it. They *cannot* take the design of your chair and reproduce it at will. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For example, by having someone else write later books using the same characters and setting before Tolkien could, leading to confusion among the reading public. Someone else working on an IP can color public perception of the property. If they were bad, they'd not have looked at Tolkien's work ("That world sucks! Why would I read it?") - this would have deprived Tolkien of the income, and also deprived the genre of his overall impact.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7756344, member: 177"] If we are gong to say you don't "own" IP you create, you only own the rights to distribute it, the same goes for everyone else. The generation cannot take ownership, because they can't own it either! The creator does not *owe* the generation their work, any more than a creator owes everyone a chair. You are not *entitled* to get what they created with their minds. Oh, and if you make a chair, and you sell the chair, the person has the right to use the chair - they can sit in it. They *cannot* take the design of your chair and reproduce it at will. For example, by having someone else write later books using the same characters and setting before Tolkien could, leading to confusion among the reading public. Someone else working on an IP can color public perception of the property. If they were bad, they'd not have looked at Tolkien's work ("That world sucks! Why would I read it?") - this would have deprived Tolkien of the income, and also deprived the genre of his overall impact. [/QUOTE]
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