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Nonsense, because the supposed 'freedoms' of the others (anyone except the author) hinge on the author creating it in the first place. They're all derived from
by roel_v 16y ago
Nonsense, because the supposed 'freedoms' of the others (anyone except the author) hinge on the author creating it in the first place. They're all derived from the work of the original author, giving that author ownership of his creations, and therefore the right to determine what happens to his property.
I'm not sure where your 'free speech' argument is coming from. Reproducing the words (or music or whatever) of someone else is not free speech. Free speech is about ideas, copyright about a specific incarnation of ideas.
- natnat 16y agoI don't see what creating something has to do with owning it. If I have kids, they are not my property, even though their existence entirely depends on me. The whole point of copyright is that the government decided that people would be more willing to create works of value if they economically protected the creators of those works. This was designed specifically to benefit the public good at the expense of individual freedom. Copyright does nothing but restrict freedom, but it does it so that people will have an incentive to create things of public value. The free speech argument comes in whenever a content creator has the power to keep other people from saying certain things because he doesn't like them, rather than because he deserves to capitalize on the use of his content. The ideas you create don't belong to you; only the right to make money from them does.