FWIW: What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright (2012): > Copyright must be reformed. We’d like to keep the copyright monopo

FWIW: What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright (2012): > Copyright must be reformed. We’d like to keep the copyright monopoly for commercial use (but with shorter, more sensible terms of protection). The big problem is that copyright has expanded in the past 20 years, going from being something that only corporations needed to care about, into something that criminalizes the entire young generation (and more and more people who aren’t even particularly young anymore). > The Swedish Pirate Party wants to; Legalize file-sharing and other non-commercial sharing [...] At most 20 years of protection from the publication of a work. [...] Registration after five years. [...] Sensible regulation for quotations, parodies, and remixes [...] A ban on DRM http://falkvinge.net/2012/10/13/what-the-swedish-pirate-party-wants-with-patents-trademarks-and-copyright/ http://falkvinge.net/2012/10/13/what-the-swedish-pirate-part... Richard Stallman (2012): > I agree with all three of these positions. I do suggest, however, that it would be better not to group together these three issues and only these three. Why would anyone group together these three unrelated laws? I suspect it reflects the mistaken concept of "intellectual property". http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#16_October_2012_(Swedish_Pirate_Partys_platform_positions) http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#16_Octobe... You can reform copyright without rendering the GPL unworkable. I asked Rick Falkvinge about this a number of years ago (2008-2010), and he seemed quite confident that the GPL would still be viable given their proposed reforms. (Current Pirate Parties appear to use similar policies, such as Pirate Party UK:"A fair and balanced copyright regime that is suitable for the 21st century is an absolute necessity for the UK to remain competitive in a global economy that is built upon ideas and innovation. Copyright should give artists and innovators the chance to make money from their work; however, that needs to be balanced with the rights of society as a whole. We will work for copyright reform and reduce copyright terms to 10 years to balance everyone's needs." https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/policy/culture/home https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/policy/culture/home)