The problem with this author is that he misunderstands what his writing is. He thinks he is writing books that he then owns and wants to own forever. But that isn't the case and a lot of wise minds over the couple of centuries we've had copyright bear out that it is only narrow, greedy, or misinformed minds who consider intellectual labor to become a form of property. It isn't. Simply put, it is only labor that the government has given the author the right to collect on for a set period of time as a return on his work. In fact, the very existence of 'Work For Hire' in copyright bears out that creativity is something that can be hired. Most workers do not have the option to get a return on their labor beyond the paycheck they receive at the end of the week. It is the nature of the labor that results in a paycheck covering a number of years worth of exclusive rights as opposed to other forms of recompense. The original term of 14 years renewable for another 14 should have been more than adequate to pay the author for a job well done, or show the author that maybe he needs some improvement on his work.
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The problem with this author is that he misunderstands what his writing is. He thinks he is writing books that he then owns and wants to own forever. But that isn't the case and a lot of wise minds over the couple of centuries we've had copyright bear out that it is only narrow, greedy, or misinformed minds who consider intellectual labor to become a form of property. It isn't. Simply put, it is only labor that the government has given the author the right to collect on for a set period of time as a return on his work. In fact, the very existence of 'Work For Hire' in copyright bears out that creativity is something that can be hired. Most workers do not have the option to get a return on their labor beyond the paycheck they receive at the end of the week. It is the nature of the labor that results in a paycheck covering a number of years worth of exclusive rights as opposed to other forms of recompense. The original term of 14 years renewable for another 14 should have been more than adequate to pay the author for a job well done, or show the author that maybe he needs some improvement on his work.