Then essentially no creator had any control over their work ever, because that's what we do all the time, legally.Daverson said:If you're removing the right of the copyright holder to seek legal recompense against those who have chosen to use their work against their wishes, then you're effectively saying to them "you have no control over your work".
In 1983, there was a lawsuit that eventually decided, that individuals have a right to record copies of complete television shows through VCR and Betamax. This was done against the wishes of Universal studios and many other publishers who feared that this will cause them financial harm by giving people more options to watch shows without buying an authorised copy.
Even earlier than that, copyright always had a limited length, first 25 years, slowly growing to 90 years, but there was always a point after which holders lost their right to enforce their wishes.
Not long ago, the EU declared that digital content's second-hand sales can't be stopped by the copyright holder.
Copyright had never been that kind of absolute "ownership" that you either have or you don't. It was always a set of regulations granted depending on how much of it was needed to make the production of art sufficently funded, without needlessly restricting individual access to culture with excessive control.
"IP holder" would be a more common expression. Just as you did above, with "Copyright holder".Daverson said:Intellectual property is something you own, hence the term "IP Owner".
I guess the "IP owner" variant also exists, though it's much more rarely used in the form of "copyright owner", because that first part would make the whole property fallacy much more obvious.
Copyright is a right. A license that is granted to you as an IP creator to hold. You can say that you "own" it, in the informal sense that it "belongs to you", in the same way as you "own" a scar on your face, or you "own" a seat in high school, or you "own" a right to vote, but it was never a subject of actual ownership, as in property laws.