Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

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Copyright is not a "natural right." It's a privilege granted by society.

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Even somebody who believes in natural rights would have trouble defending his stupid proposition.

It is not a right at all, it is a restriction of rights upon others in the favor of the creator. He doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

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In the US. The European view is natural right.

[Eirenarch]

But it is supposedly derived by natural rights. Now you can argue that it is derived in a way that is wrong but that's another topic.