Warner Bros. takes its goods to market on publicly maintained roads, sells its sitcoms and movies to networks that broadcast on public airwaves, and distributes its movies to theaters and homes through fiber-optic cables that run over and under public land. The company is bound up in our shared history, and it has produced a great deal of art that is essential to that history.
This argument suggests that anything you do partially belongs to the author, as well; airwaves aside, all of us are enabled in some way by public investments.
This argument suggests that anything you do partially belongs to the author, as well; airwaves aside, all of us are enabled in some way by public investments.