QUOTE(anthony @ Sun 22nd January 2012, 2:25am)
QUOTE(Michaeldsuarez @ Sat 21st January 2012, 2:20pm)
I like how they claim " that copyright is not a natural right of authors, but an artificial concession", and then quote the Constitution where it talks about "securing for limited Times...the exclusive Right".
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While it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from Nature at all ... it is considered by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no one has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land ... Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.
Thomas Jefferson
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All property, indeed, except the savage's temporary cabin, his bow, his matchcoat and other little Acquisitions absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the creature of public Convention. Hence, the public has the rights of regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the quantity and uses of it. All the property that is necessary to a man is his natural Right, which none may justly deprive him of, but all Property superfluous to such Purposes is the property of the Public who, by their Laws have created it and who may, by other Laws dispose of it.
Benjamin Franklin
IOW all property is an artificial concession of society. So their point is?