> Shouldn't the laborers who carried the stones to build a bridge be entitled to an ongoing royalty paid by everyone who crosses? If that laborer decided that

> Shouldn't the laborers who carried the stones to build a bridge be entitled to an ongoing royalty paid by everyone who crosses? If that laborer decided that his works had to be pay that way, sure. > How is it "fair" that someone should be entitled to profit again-and-again from a single act of work, just because that work was "creative"? What he does is owned by himself. He shared it with you on a specific terms, that you don't share it with anyone else. He profit again and again from his single act of work, because that's how he decided to sell it. There's millions that does a work, sell it and are done with it. I do it everyday at work, I do 8 hours of software development and that source code is now the property of the company where I work. That's my choice though.