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I'm a proponent of open culture, and curtailed limits on the duration of copyright. But that being said, no rational person could possibly believe that copyrig
by StevePerkins 9y ago
I'm a proponent of open culture, and curtailed limits on the duration of copyright.
But that being said, no rational person could possibly believe that copyright exists only due to external state actor pressure from "the richest countries"... and not due to the fact that entrenched financial interests influence every nation on earth. Over-the-top zealotry only serves to discredit more sober critiques.
- aunty_helen 9y agoIf you look at what happened to Kim Dotcom in NZ, a rational person might change their view.
- alysdexia 9y agoA person has no their.
- CamperBob2 9y agoBut that being said, no rational person could possibly believe that copyright exists only due to external state actor pressure from "the richest countries" History suggests otherwise. Something that many of "the richest countries" have in common, including the US, is near-complete disregard of other countries' IP laws during their formative stages. Once these nations climb to the top on a heap of broken IP laws, they invariably set about building it even higher.