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For most creative works though, thats not really true: like, most movies make something like 90% of their income in the first month of release. Most TV episodes get most of their value on release day. I mean, evvery comic book writer wants to write watchmen and have their comic book published...

But you already said in your ideal the copyright cant be sold? And how much is very, very important. If changing 1 paragraph in lord of the rings moves you out of copyright, then copyright is worthless and having such laws is a pointless inconvience. When you say ideas are property, its...

Hm. So your actually more extreme on the "Ideas are personal property" train than most people. I don't know, I feel like a government granted right to profit off other people's labor is more "commi" than letting each person benefit off their own labor. In my earlier example of the Beatles...

So you fall much more that writing should be much more like personal property. Would you apply the same to technology? If you invented the car, should that person have exlusive right to it till they die? Or, if not, why would you value the idea of an invention less than the idea of a book...

This is I think the core issue: are we defending copyright as a defense of private property, or implementing copyright to, as you say, incentify the creation of a public good: which logic your operating under creates extremely different logic's to the laws, because your solving for very...

I'm not sure your actually correct about the first part: the issue is not stealing bread vs stealing jewelry: its stealing $1 dollar of goods vs stealing $5,000 dollars worth of goods. Stealing $5,000 dollars of bread would be, generally, treated as an identical, moral crime as stealing a single...