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> Copyright is a moral evil Please elaborate.

• nordsieck 4y ago
  >> Copyright is a moral evil > Please elaborate. I think your parent was expressing the inherent tradeoff in Copyright. On the one hand, the country has a vested interested in allowing citizens to participate in culture. That doesn't just mean consuming, but also modifying and creating using inspiration from other parts of culture. On the other hand, the country recognizes that the generation of cultural artifacts is greatly increased if creators have limited monopoly rights over their creations so they can more easily make a living creating them. I'm not sure if I would call it a "moral evil", but I can understand how one could.
• gostsamo 4y ago
  Not the GP, but the argument could be summarized as: Intellectual work takes time and effort only once when it is created. Copying information is so cheap, it is close to zero. Yet, copyright holders accumulate copyrightable material and try to earn money from it in perpetuity. This is the classic case of rent seeking where the concept of ownership is used to take value from the labor of others. I don't fully agree with this interpretation, but I won't say that I totally disagree either.