[Mxsmanic]

mcp6453 writes:

Patents and copyrights are personal property, like microphones. Since I like
collecting microphones, what's a reasonable time for someone to be able to own a
microphone?

Copyright, as the name implies controls the right to copy something, not the
right to take it.

John McBride has some really nice microphones. If it's okay to limit the amount
of time we can own private property, I need to move closer to Blackbird Studios
so that I can be the first in line when he's owned his U47s long enough.

Owning a microphone doesn't prevent others from building or owning identical
or similar microphones.

All joking aside, it seems to me that the argument is being made that copyrights
and patents should not be personal property. Under the law, they are considered
to be private property. I seriously doubt that anyone here is advocating that
private property should be taken from its owner after an arbitrary period of time.

Nobody is advocating that. Expiration of copyright just allows people to make
copies.