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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Androrc" data-source="post: 5418694" data-attributes="member: 6667492">I'm all for businesses profiting, usually everyone is better off that way. However, if they take decisions that harm the common good, then they are being immoral. They can legally do what they have, but there is public rejection of their moves precisely because such moves are and feel unethical, and petty.Once they put it out in the world, it belongs to everyone. They have only the right to profit from their work, and their IP. But having control over whether or not making it available, as currently they legally do, is a moral abuse against society, and the free flow of information.I disagree partially. I think there are problems with how IP works currently, but I don't think that the problems stem from the term being too long. The problems are rather that companies have too much control over IPs, being able to shut down initiatives of third parties, and depriving people of the availability of their products. Ideally, they would be able to impose royalties on creative work based on their IPs, as well as necessarily gaining a share of profits from publication of their works, but wouldn't be able to stop people doing creative work on their IPs or others from publishing their works.</blockquote>