Leaving aside religion, rights exist only because society recognizes them and is willing to use its collective force to enforce them. In the absence of society, humans have no more of a "right to life" or a "right to property" than the chicken that ended up on my plate for dinner has these things.
We would all act to defend ourselves physically; we would not all act to "defend" copyright. People infringe copyright all the time, and others simply reject what they cannot copy easily.
There was enough disagreement to dislodge the right to own people from the right to own property. Is there enough agreement to keep copyright?
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Leaving aside religion, rights exist only because society recognizes them and is willing to use its collective force to enforce them. In the absence of society, humans have no more of a "right to life" or a "right to property" than the chicken that ended up on my plate for dinner has these things.
We would all act to defend ourselves physically; we would not all act to "defend" copyright. People infringe copyright all the time, and others simply reject what they cannot copy easily.
There was enough disagreement to dislodge the right to own people from the right to own property. Is there enough agreement to keep copyright?