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Copyright infringement is not theft. Copyright needs global reform. Patent law requires global reform. And ACTA is about as far from the appropriate reform a
by auxbuss 16y ago
Copyright infringement is not theft.
Copyright needs global reform.
Patent law requires global reform.
And ACTA is about as far from the appropriate reform as one could possibly be. But that's what you get when you leave these things to politicians who have zero experience of them. And have zero buy-in and ultimately zero responsibility for them. They have no idea of which they speak. But they aren't going to admit it, are they?
Caveat: I own both copyrighted and patented works. I say: reform, reform, reform.
- rue 16y agoI think it is necessary to recognise an author's moral right to the work or, if you wish, mandatory attribution. No-one ought be allowed to take someone else's work as theirs. Beyond that the issue gets a bit hazy.
- chopsueyar 16y agoNo-one ought to be allowed to murder, rape, molest, torture, etc...
- rue 16y agoOne component of the discussion is getting rid of copyrights altogether, so I fail to understand your point.
- chopsueyar 16y agoAre you serious? You said "No-one ought be allowed to...". Well, to do those kinds of things, we need laws, and ways of enforcing those laws. So, to enforce "mandatory attribution" to an author of a work, would require some sort of legal mechanism to do so. Protecting the author's "moral right" involves him or her having some sort of protection by the law, in the same vein the law protects citizens from rape, murder, and other violent acts. My point being, simply because there is a law or a "moral right" to prevent certain acts, does not and cannot stop those acts from occurring, although it may reduce the frequency of those acts. Lastly, I was unaware this thread mentioned anything about "getting rid of copyrights", particularly when you "think it is necessary to recognize an author's moral right to the work or, if you wish, mandatory attribution."
- rue 16y agoI do not understand what you are arguing about.