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I agree. I really dislike the fact that copyrights can be "transferred" to another person or entity. But you agree (I assume) that people should have copyright

• cygx 13y ago
  You can still sell exclusive usage rights even if you cannot transfer ownership. That's the idea behind German 'Urheberrecht' (literally creator's rights): As soon as you create something of sufficient originality, you gain moral rights that cannot be transferred except through inheritance (ie after death).
• Sniffnoy 13y ago
  But that doesn't mean you have to "sell" it in a transfer-of-ownership way. You license it so particular people, who have paid you for this, get exclusive use of it. Selling it in the usual sense is weird because it means that then people can then go and further sell it to people who might use it in ways you wouldn't have approved of. And maybe you're OK with that, or you really trust the people you're licensing it to, and you want it to be sublicensable. But there's no inherent reason everything has to be sublicensable -- and the transfer-of-ownership paradigm is effectively, "everything is sublicensable". And not just sublicensable, but sublicensable to arbitrarily large degree. And yet this is what seems to have become customary.