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Can you support copyright without resorting to the misapplied notion of having the right to control and profit from your labors? There are long established ri
by indrax 16y ago
Can you support copyright without resorting to the misapplied notion of having the right to control and profit from your labors?
There are long established rights, 'natural' rights if you want, that pertain to things like being able to do what we want with the things we own and the information we have.
Copyright is a government granted monopoly, which is supposed to be temporary.
The right to control and profit from your labor does not extend to restricting the basic activities of other people.
If you have valuable skills, you can charge for them. The market for services doesn't evaporate when copyright is eliminated.
One problem with long term copyright is that it disconnects doing creative work from profiting from creative work, the opposite of it's original intent.
Piracy is morally neutral.