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On 02/15/2013 01:58 AM, Louigi Verona wrote:

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> If we are in a position when such "courtesy" means saying "Can I

> please use your tune in my play?", we are philosophically saying that

> the author has the right to decide how you should employ your body and

> your property in a certain way. I maintain that by making up an idea,

> you do not now gain property rights in everything that uses that idea.

Here's where we differ.  You seem to claim that if *I* write a song on

my own, and *YOU* want to include that song in a play or movie, that if

I say "no," then I am deciding how you can use YOUR property.  This is

simply not true.  You can use your property any way you want, as long as

you don't kidnap MY property to do it.  And claiming that my refusal to

grant a mechanical license for my copyright work results in my somehow

deciding how you can use YOUR BODY is gibberish.
A LOT of the examples you complain about are actually ABUSE of

copyright, rather than a flaw in the concept of copyright.  It still

seems like you believe that if someone else writes a song, that you

honestly believe that you have superior rights over his property than he

does.
Each of us "owns" his own body.  By extension, we each "own" whatever we

produce out of thin air.  If you claim that you somehow have a right to

what I have produced, that would mean that you believe that you own me,

and I am reduced to a position of slavery.  Do you believe that you

would have a "right" to WHATEVER I produced?  Is there a limit??  Would

I have to ask you to please leave me enough of my labor so that I may

feed my family or buy new strings for my guitar, or will you provide

those, in order than I could continue to produce things which you would

claim to have a right to?
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