[freejazz]

Your claim isn't supported either.

> People create things all the time under such liberal conditions as public domain

And people are free to, even under the duress of copyright. What's the problem there?

What was the last movie you saw?

[RiverCrochet]

> And people are free to, even under the duress of copyright. What's the problem there?

I assume a free society should operate with the least duress, because duress is "compulsion by threat or violence; coercion" which actively restricts activity as opposed to merely ignoring or not participating in it.

If someone would be free to create the thing without copyright duress, it is better even if delayed, because it was done with the least restriction of freedom.

The last movie I saw was Disney's Frozen which is based on a Hans Christen Andersen story currently in the public domain. It was good, but not "life of the author + 75 years" good.

[freejazz]

Well if we had your way, you'd just be reading the public domain book instead.

>If someone would be free to create the thing without copyright duress, it is better even if delayed, because it was done with the least restriction of freedom.

Who said delayed? I didn't. The alternative isn't Mulholland drive coming out in 2011 instead of 2001, it's it not being made at all.

And it's trivial to opt out of copyright protection, giving your work up to the public domain. I wonder why more authors don't!

My use of duress was ironic and this conversation is not productive.