Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive. - eviltoast
  • Auli@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Your buying the stories not the ownership of all the ideas.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Word salad.

      Again: the explicit purpose of copyright is to provide the public with new works. After a fixed limited time, all works belong in the public domain. If you want copyright to be anything but that, I would rather not do copyright at all.

      It’s not a right. That name is a lie. It’s a monetary incentive. And once someone’s made their money, that’s that. It’s ours now. The deal worked.