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The equivalent to copying information would be building another house with equivalent materials that has the same floorplan as your house, not taking your house
by Havvy 12y ago
The equivalent to copying information would be building another house with equivalent materials that has the same floorplan as your house, not taking your house itself.
"right to the residual income from its resale" sounds like a very weird right to me, and doesn't really come from any sound ethical foundation. In fact, it's exactly the opposite for physical goods. If I buy a deck of cards, and then sell (or give) it to somebody else, I've technically deprived the creator of the deck of cards of residual income from resale, but they don't have a right to it from the first sale doctrine.