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> People can choose not to make the product of their work available. And these people have chosen to make it available. If you want to create something and kee
by bakugo 3y ago
> People can choose not to make the product of their work available.
And these people have chosen to make it available. If you want to create something and keep it all to yourself, fine, do that, nobody will force you to release it to the public. But once you have released it to the public, you shouldn't be able to take it back.
- tptacek 3y agoPeople are allowed to be selective about how they make things available, and they're allowed to stop putting the effort in to keep them available without forfeiting their rights. Again: we aren't entitled to access this stuff, except by contract, which spells out our remedies when they exist.
- bakugo 3y agoYou're just regurgitating what the current laws state. The whole point of this discussion is that said current laws lead to most media effectively becoming lost after a certain period of time and this is a problem, so the law should be changed.
- tptacek 3y agoNo, I'm saying that the principle underlying those laws is sound and should be respected. We're not entitled to other people's work product!
- pseudalopex 3y agoWe are not entitled to reproduction monopolies.
- tptacek 3y agoThe Constitution says otherwise.
- pseudalopex 3y agoThe American constitution permits Congress to grant temporary reproduction monopolies. Not compels.
- account42 3y agoAnd to be even more clear: The constitution has to explicitly permit copyright because otherwise it would be an unconstitutional limitation of people's rights, most importantely of free speech.
- scheeseman486 3y agoWe literally are, as evidenced by an expiry point at which all copyrighted works are available to everyone.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoYou are free to make things unavailable, why should my tax money be spent on criminally charging people that do not conform to your preferences?
- tptacek 3y agoFor precisely the same reason people believe tax dollars should go towards enforcing the GPL. You're welcome to disagree, but not to withhold your tax dollars when you fall into the minority.