It seems like there needs to be some understanding of “benefitting from one’s own work” as part of this conversation.
If I make a thing, and am actively providing it for consumption, I have an interest in maintaining its integrity.
Contrarily, if I have made something, but it’s just sitting idling away as something I simply own as an IP, it will be allowed to languish, in every sense of the word.
There are similar concepts with trademarks; if you don’t actively defend trademark usages, you stand the risk of losing it to the public domain.
Likewise, if you don’t actually provide your creation to the public in a consumable way, you should lose the ability to claim it.
If I make a thing, and am actively providing it for consumption, I have an interest in maintaining its integrity.
Contrarily, if I have made something, but it’s just sitting idling away as something I simply own as an IP, it will be allowed to languish, in every sense of the word.
There are similar concepts with trademarks; if you don’t actively defend trademark usages, you stand the risk of losing it to the public domain.
Likewise, if you don’t actually provide your creation to the public in a consumable way, you should lose the ability to claim it.