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Ancient copyrights are the ultimate rent seeking of our time.

• theseatoms 11y ago
  Not land ownership?
  • nitrogen 11y ago
    The difference between land and music is that land is actually scarce.
    • fennecfoxen 11y ago
      Also, nobody ever really builds expensive things on top of music that they'll lose if it's suddenly played by other people.
      • Natsu 11y ago
        Actually they sort of do: people make derivative works or compilations that become encumbered when something out of copyright is found to be in copyright again. Something which has happened thanks to nonsense like "common law" state copyrights and retroactive extensions. Of course, that's an argument against the practice rather than for it.
  • ps4fanboy 11y ago
    No ones paying property taxes on IP.