there's no qualitative distinction between property rights and e.g. a right to healthcare.
There is. A rational person pursuing his own good simply wants to be protected from the initiation of force, whence arises "negative rights," such as property rights, and any other legitimate right (this was the original meaning of the word "right" in this context).
Any "positive right" (a right requiring the initiation of force) is not only qualitatively different (in that it requires the initiation of force instead of arising because the initiaition of force is barred), it is not a legitimate right.
Copyright law does not make individuals more free, quite the opposite.
Disagree.
It gives a small number of powerful organizations the power to control the much larger number of individuals who would want to create derivative works.
That's quite obviously untrue, unless you think that Time Warner owning Harry Potter counts as "control" or "oppression", or if you have a too-expansive view of copyright (e.g., conflating it with patents).
Every aspect of modern life is made possible by others serving the common good.
Most good aspect of modern life comes from people serving themselves; benefitng the common good is a nice side-effect.
And frankly, society would be better off without the "creativity" of those who are producing works just for the paycheck.
Really? That's an incredibly destructive and anti-life point of view.
>There is. A rational person pursuing his own good simply wants to be protected from the initiation of force, whence arises "negative rights," such as property rights, and any other legitimate right (this was the original meaning of the word "right" in this context).
It takes a perverse definition of force to say that when person B is living on land that person A claims ownership of, and person A has him forcibly thrown off it, that person B was the one who initiated force.
>That's quite obviously untrue, unless you think that Time Warner owning Harry Potter counts as "control" or "oppression
They have the power to prevent me, privately, behind closed doors, from writing my own stories with Harry Potter in and giving them to my friends.
There is. A rational person pursuing his own good simply wants to be protected from the initiation of force, whence arises "negative rights," such as property rights, and any other legitimate right (this was the original meaning of the word "right" in this context).
Any "positive right" (a right requiring the initiation of force) is not only qualitatively different (in that it requires the initiation of force instead of arising because the initiaition of force is barred), it is not a legitimate right.
Copyright law does not make individuals more free, quite the opposite.
Disagree.
It gives a small number of powerful organizations the power to control the much larger number of individuals who would want to create derivative works.
That's quite obviously untrue, unless you think that Time Warner owning Harry Potter counts as "control" or "oppression", or if you have a too-expansive view of copyright (e.g., conflating it with patents).
Every aspect of modern life is made possible by others serving the common good.
Most good aspect of modern life comes from people serving themselves; benefitng the common good is a nice side-effect.
And frankly, society would be better off without the "creativity" of those who are producing works just for the paycheck.
Really? That's an incredibly destructive and anti-life point of view.