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>"a complete logical oxymoron: they want data to be public but also select who gets to see it." I think you're proving too much here. Your argument applies to
by nickff 6y ago
>"a complete logical oxymoron: they want data to be public but also select who gets to see it."
I think you're proving too much here. Your argument applies to all published authors, and would strike a crippling blow to their copyright.
- aleksei 6y agoFirst of all I should think copyright only restricts publishing, not reading. Obviously if you put a price on your book I have to pay it, but that's a different issue. Secondly the Internet is best viewed as a public noticeboard purely because of the way the protocol works. There's just no getting around that. I think you'd agree that putting up a notice on a street corner and then getting offended when people read it would be viewed as rather odd, if not something else.
- tremon 6y agoBut published authors don't have control over who gets to see their work -- only who gets to profit from it (distribution rights, not use rights).