On 2008-01-29, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Mark Kent wrote:
> [...]
>> Quite. Piracy remains a very real and very nasty crime, whereas
>> copyright violation, although clearly illegal, does not involve attacks
>> on individuals, property or other tangible things. The music industry
>
> Copyright rights are *property* rights, silly. See for example
No they aren't.
They are a temporary grant intended to suit the public interest.
They are not perpetual. They are meant to expire. This is quite
distinct from real or personal property. These "property rights"
also are missing key things from real property law like
adverse posession.
[deletia]
They aren't even "rights" in the usual intention of that word.
That is why they are isolated in the law from everything else
that one would normally think of as a "right". That's no accident.
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