If you truly want to keep your intellectual work truly and solely to yourself that's fine, just keep it in your head or on secured personal devices. Once you h

If you truly want to keep your intellectual work truly and solely to yourself that's fine, just keep it in your head or on secured personal devices. Once you have shared the work it is not solely yours, others have limited claims on it too. That doesn't mean some exclusive controls on it for a limited time are not a valid balancing of the competing claims of the producer and the recipients of your cultural production.