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Imagine instead of writing it in your blog, telling it someone. Does he/she have right to tell it to others? This is how we, humans, functioned for ages, you
by takeda 7y ago
Imagine instead of writing it in your blog, telling it someone.
Does he/she have right to tell it to others?
This is how we, humans, functioned for ages, you are basing your opinion on already artificial constructs.
We as humanity, achieved most thanks to copying information and constantly improving and building on top of it.
Copyright was meant to provide short time for the authors to make money, before releasing it to pubic domain.
Initially copyright, protected the work only for 14 years, now it is 100 years after the death of the author and it is extended perpetually, because our constitution says that copyright needs to expire, it doesn't specify when, which is being exploited.
Company like Disney, built their empire on public domain works, but fiercely fights to prevent them to become public domain. Every time copyright for Mickey Mouse is about to expire, our Congress extends it.
We need to get back to sensible time frame. 14 years was more than enough to make profit from your works.
- matheusmoreira 7y agoI completely agree with you. The original idea behind copyright was "we'll pretend your intellectual work is scarce for a couple decades so you can turn a profit and then it'll enter the public domain". When was the last time something entered the public domain? Probably the early 20th century. All the great films we grew up with? They were supposed to have entered the public domain a long time ago but Netflix still has to pay for them and as a result they're unavailable. After all these extensions, we'll probably be long dead by the time they become public property. If it ever happens -- I have no doubt they'll try to make their copyrights last forever. The copyright industry isn't really keeping up their end of the deal. People should respond by voiding the social contract. There is no reason to recognize copyright as a legitimate concept much less lose any sleep over any infringement.