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Copyright isn't really a right in the sense of the public freedoms/choice. It's there to limit publishing and distribution to only those with the legal documen
by bobajeff 8y ago
Copyright isn't really a right in the sense of the public freedoms/choice.
It's there to limit publishing and distribution to only those with the legal document saying they can. It's more of a anti-right. In fact historically it was created for the purpose of censorship.
- JasonFruit 8y agoPeople have a right to the fruits of their labors. I don't care a tinker's mother about the history of copyright — the principle is simple, and copyright is a flawed protection of that right.
- bobajeff 8y agoThough it may be used by industry on some occasion to protect someone's ability to profit. Copyright and the right to the fruits of your labor are not the same thing. In cases like this disregarding one isn't equivalent to infringing on the other.
- JasonFruit 8y agoI expressed the contrast between copyright and the right it attempts to protect above. Notice that I didn't say anything about profiting from the fruit of their labors, but the right to them, no matter whether they choose to profit or let it rot. It's just as much an infringement to preserve it without their permission as it is to sell it.
- bobajeff 8y agoYep that's the definition of copyright. Seems like more of a anti-right as it's about limiting others rights.
- JasonFruit 8y agoI see the problem here: you don't know what a right is.