If you create something, it belongs to you.
I guess somebody didn't learn this lesson in kindergarten, and still wants to whine and complain in an effort to effectively nationalize what is rightfully private property.
I guess somebody didn't learn this lesson in kindergarten, and still wants to whine and complain in an effort to effectively nationalize what is rightfully private property.
But there is nothing inherent or "rightfully" private property about things you create - it's a right granted by governments in order to promote creative behavior that is seen as good for society at large.
The 20th and 21st centuries have seen giant entertainment industries lobbying for an ever-expanding copyright term. (Some people say endless, because it has expanded faster than time has passed.) In addition, they have successfully created a cultural belief that physical property and intellectual property should be treated the same despite the fact that they are inherently different. (When I take your wallet you no longer have it, but when I take your ideas we both have them.)
If anything, the 20th century saw a massive effort to privatize our shared public culture as it was created. You can make the argument that we are better off as a result of this privatization, but it's simply incorrect to frame this as people trying to nationalize what is inherently private property.
If you want to protect it, go hire your own police and build your own courts; stop using mine.
In an ideal society, I wouldn't be opposed to those seeking copyright enforcement paying the costs, although the costs would presumably eventually be passed on to the infringers. We will never see such a society in our lifetimes, though, so it's a somewhat moot point.
If it was private then no one would have the ability to copy it. If you keep your works private, you get infinite copyright.
If you care so much about your "private property", keep it entirely to yourself. That's maximum "security".
'But wait', says the "owner" - 'I want to make money off of it!'
Ah! Well, you're saying you want to introduce it to society? You want to have something of that societal construct of "money" in return for your private property?
'Yes, I worked very hard for this and it should be obvious that I deserve to be rewarded!'
And of course you should! So, let's see, you really did something great there, here is a thing for you: "Copyright Protection". We like your work so much, that we want you to be the only one in control of making profit from it for a long time.
'But I want more!'
Alright, actually, we want you to be that person as long as you live.
'But I want more!'
What, you mean more than... for life? Sheesh, alright, just because it's you: Society will extend it for you for decades after you have died.
'But I want more!'
Sheesh, alright, let's say we add some mucky legal stuff where you can name rights-holders who can "protect" your copyrights far beyond those limits, proportional to how much money you put into it.
'But I want more!'
Wait a second - what more do you want?
'I want forever. I also want all the money. For me and mine and myself.'
Well, turns out, you're just a mortal like all the other humans that make up the society that you are so happy to profit from in blissfully ignorant entitlement and so unwilling to give back to in return.
Should have kept it to yourself.
"Belonging to" is just what we agree on together for a short time. In the end, everyone dies and no one gets to keep anything.
If there were owners of VH's IP who were opposed to this kind of casual use, I'd have no problem using a different handle. Unless the name is also generic French name, I'm not sure if it is or not.
Meanwhile, I leave you this: http://mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf
One of these rights is not like the others. One of these rights is not the same. Can you guess which right...?
"Hey, wait, get your own ideas." -- Society.
Also, consider KMP string matching algorithm. Who owns that idea?
Mendeleev (Mendeleyev) spent part of his life re-discovering and re-inventing stuff... because most of the inventions and discoveries took time to spread to his native Russia.
And Mendeleev's own Periodic Table was re-discovered :) by Lothar Meyer
No creative work has value unless it is substantially derivative.
One day you will die and on that day you will lose everything you have.
Anyone can claim ownership of anything. Doesn't make it so.