An heirloom brooch,book, or chair isn’t a constant source of revenue like a copyright or patent! So your analogy fails .And just sitting on a copyright or patent so no one can benefit is pointless,if not morally wrong.
Houses are passed down with the government collecting taxes every year and often more taxes when the house is passed down.
You sound like a leftist invoking the morality of forced sharing. The only moral issue here is the morality of property ownership, and if the owner, or the owner’s heirs, choose to sit on it - by, say, not allowing a great work of literature to be turned into Disney cartoons, or a movie starring Jennifer Lopez - that is their right.
You sound like a leftist invoking the morality of forced sharing. The only moral issue here is the morality of property ownership, and if the owner, or the owner’s heirs, choose to sit on it - by, say, not allowing a great work of literature to be turned into Disney cartoons, or a movie starring Jennifer Lopez - that is their right.