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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 7689856" data-attributes="member: 40166">Copyright as property is analogy. From another perspective, copyright is an incredible invasion of personal property rights. If I bought candy and wanted to make the same candy at home, I could. You're saying that I bought a book but Big Brother is going to stand outside my window and grab me if I make--I make--another book like it for my friend. I wrote a story shipping Snape and Vader, and you're going to claim that it's someone else's stuff, that someone else wrote it!I like the US Constitution's take on it: copyright is a way we get more art and science. It's not some inherent right of mankind, it's something we do to make society work better. There's all sorts of exceptions, fair use, parody, freedom of panorama (where copyrighted works, ranging for buildings in the US to pretty much any art works in some countries, once put in the public eye, are free to photograph and do with those photographs as you will.) The citizens control copyright and try and shape it to help society.Because it's one model, not the inherent truth.It is perfectly legal to riff off the work of others. Copyright infringement is way more limited then that.Nobody owns ideas. If a grown-up, professional world means that we let movies melt to vinegar and paper works acidify to dust because nobody can afford the ridiculous cost of getting the rights to copy them, that's sad.Not a fan of Shakespeare? Quite a few of his plays would under current laws be copyright infringements of his sources. Are they not great?</blockquote>

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