It's the sheer thirsty entitlement here that's so off putting The simultaneous insistence that these books are precious, incredibly valuable, people will die without them And that the people who MADE THOSE BOOKS are lazy greedy little shits who've been paid enough
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The "landlord" comparison is the classic form of that - I save up my paycheck, I buy the house you live in, you can't move because you need to be there for your job, so now instead of living off my paycheck I live off yours
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The comparison of owning real estate to owning IP on a book I wrote is not very good Especially when we're talking about writing fiction (patents would be a much better candidate for the landlord comparison)
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Which plausibly, I guess, might apply to IP rather than texts. Owning the rights to Spider-man puts you in a different position than writing Spider-man comics.
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So fanfic might be a point of tension in this analysis, but it's really not the one we're arguing about now.
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