I believe copyright makes sense only if it does not go against rational behavior.
What I mean is:
1) You retain copyright only until your product or idea is made available to a public (to prevent someone from copying your idea before you release it). Otherwise you would go against the normal human way to relate with reality called use - understand - improve (which we exhibit from the day we are born).
2) A copyrighted item holder can retain copyright until he is alive and point 1 does not apply. Once you are dead there should be no obstacle to improve or study your idea.
So companies who invest on a copyrighted item are basically only buying the "right to be the first" to release it to the public.
To understand better why I say so, think about how fast humanity evolved just by capitalizing on public available knowledge. Think about all the thing we studied at school or we learned through experience during our life. These are the basic instrument that allow us to create something new. In turn we must allow others to do the same with everything we have leveraged, including our own idea.
People who break laws must lose all of this kind of benefits, this is a problem especially evident in Italy where major government members who break the law still get them, putting shame on the country and everyone who lives there.
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I believe copyright makes sense only if it does not go against rational behavior.
What I mean is:
1) You retain copyright only until your product or idea is made available to a public (to prevent someone from copying your idea before you release it). Otherwise you would go against the normal human way to relate with reality called use - understand - improve (which we exhibit from the day we are born).
2) A copyrighted item holder can retain copyright until he is alive and point 1 does not apply. Once you are dead there should be no obstacle to improve or study your idea.
So companies who invest on a copyrighted item are basically only buying the "right to be the first" to release it to the public.
To understand better why I say so, think about how fast humanity evolved just by capitalizing on public available knowledge. Think about all the thing we studied at school or we learned through experience during our life. These are the basic instrument that allow us to create something new. In turn we must allow others to do the same with everything we have leveraged, including our own idea.
People who break laws must lose all of this kind of benefits, this is a problem especially evident in Italy where major government members who break the law still get them, putting shame on the country and everyone who lives there.
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