I'm sure Levi's wouldn't mind a small license fee every time you wore jeans, but fashion designers - and most other professions - actually don't get the same privileges.
so now that we're off the real estate analogy - you picked Levis - a clothing brand and fashion design? It seems a weird argument to make that authors shouldn't have copyright on their books while using as the counterpoint another industry that is also protected by copyright https://copyrightalliance.org/education/qa-headlines/copyrig...
> The way that design elements are cut and pieced together is not protected by copyright. The U.S. Supreme Court recently addressed this topic in Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands, stating that copyright affords “no right to prohibit any person from manufacturing [clothing] of identical shape, cut, and dimensions.”
Levi's in particular has distinct cuts that they are famous for. Should we start embedding RFID tags in jeans to collect licensing fees every time you wear them in public?
since you just quoted the part saying that is one of the things not covered by copyright I guess the answer would be no?
I'm sorry but are you under the impression that everything an author does is covered by copyright, that is to say there is nothing an author does that they will be unable to copyright?
but I guess in whatever wonderful country you live in there are no such things as landlords, or perhaps its a dystopian hellhole because there isn't any government enforced property rights so warlords just grab whatever real estate they want? Just trying to get my head around this analogy you were making.
on edit: I see you completely changed your comment from being an example with real estate to being something with Levi's.
Real estate works the same way. Why are you not paying builders a license fee every time you enjoy the fruits of their labor that protect you from rain and wind? Builders get only a microscopic fraction of the value that their commercial building or a factory produces over its lifetime. Is this fair or unfair?