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> Copyright is first and foremost an attribution are you sure about this? It seems to me copyright as it is in common law countries is first and foremost abou
by riffraff 7y ago
> Copyright is first and foremost an attribution
are you sure about this?
It seems to me copyright as it is in common law countries is first and foremost about _controlling distribution_.
It's literally the right to make copies.
AFAIU, there is a difference from common law countries, for example.
E.g. in Italy an author cannot ever lose the status of author of a work, even if the the distribution rights are owned by someone else.
- doh 7y agoCopyright as a legal concept is fairly old and the perception on it changed a lot within the history. For instance SACEM [0] was established 170 years ago in France. The general idea was to allow creators and rights holders to control their distribution but recent changes, in US MMA [1] and in EU the Copyright Directive [2] are now moving from focusing on distribution to getting creators paid. If we look far enough in the future, copyright will mean something very different that what it means today. But I'm biased, considering that I built company in this space. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_des_auteurs,_compositeurs_et_éditeurs_de_musique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_des_auteurs,_composite... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Modernization_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Modernization_Act [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...