| > but you're not free to just declare that view the only reasonable one and expect no one to argue To be fair, I believe I am free in my expectations and declarations. I didn't and don't expect that however. > right to attempt to sell your friend the file under the terms I want to set To attempt a sale is not a right, at least not one I am familiar with. > You dragging a dropping a icon representing the bits on a hard drive isn't valuable work. Actually, in as much as that is included in the archival process, I disagree. > It's illegal because the shared ethical framework of the people and society that drafted the constitution found it immoral. Good thing Disney has nothing to do with it, otherwise copyright might stretch out to over a century. |
It's called "copyright". You have the right to control distribution of your creative work. A direct and unavoidable implication of that is the right to try to sell it.
> Actually, in as much as that is included in the archival process, I disagree.
Archival doesn't produce a creative act by either common sense or legal interpretation. You can add value of course by writing backup programs or just doing the work of backing people's files up, so arguably I didn't choose my words carefully enough there. But the thing you created was the process of doing the archiving. You're entitled to control of and credit for that work, but not the actual files that your process created. Writing a program that saves the text of an ebook doesn't make me the author of the book.
> Good thing Disney has nothing to do with it, otherwise copyright might stretch out to over a century.
I completely agree, but it's irrelevant to the discussion of whether or not copyright as a concept should exist.