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It always amazes me that people who consider it an ethical issue by equating copyright infringement with "stealing", have no ethical problem with the fact that
by rickmb 15y ago
It always amazes me that people who consider it an ethical issue by equating copyright infringement with "stealing", have no ethical problem with the fact that copyright law is being blatantly abused to achieve exactly the opposite of what it was intended to do, i.e. maximizing the distribution of original work.
Copyright laws exist to serve society, not just a handful of corporations.
- wccrawford 15y ago[Citation needed.] Was it really meant to maximize distribution, or was it meant to encourage production? Because it -does- encourage production.
- hxa7241 15y agoIt is meant to optimise the trade-off of both. (Encouraging production alone does not suffice to justify it.) See paragraph 2 of http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html Given that, the original point stands.