Here's the difference though: you can't copyright facts. The facts were there before anyone discovered them. If I describe something that is objectively true fo

Here's the difference though: you can't copyright facts. The facts were there before anyone discovered them. If I describe something that is objectively true for the first time, it was simply there and I noticed it. I expect anyone who would like to, to notice it as well and build on it that observation with their own observations. In other words if I show the earth is "round" then I didn't create that fact. It simply was. What I mean by things that I've created, I mean that I've literally brought into the world. A novel, a photograph, some code. Those things did not already exist, but only came about due to my thoughts and work. So I don't find it unreasonable to say I would like to limit for a reasonable period of time (that I absolutely acknowledge is WAY too long in the USA right now) their abuse by others to make a buck off of.