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I am under the impression that Rick Falkvinge regards any enforcement of copyrights as a monopoly. He seems to regard companies as intrinsically opposing indivi
by smashing 15y ago
I am under the impression that Rick Falkvinge regards any enforcement of copyrights as a monopoly. He seems to regard companies as intrinsically opposing individual freedoms with regards to copyright. It seems to be an odd article to be linked from a "news" site seemingly geared towards people collaborating to startup companies.
Maybe this is just the political leanings of the YCombinator angel investors and the hopeful applicants.
- bediger 15y agoBut a copyright, even a traditional, pre-Berne convention US copyright is exactly and precisely a monopoly. A copyright is a state-granted monopoly privilege of reproduction. That's the definition of "copyright" used by everyone from lawyers to economists, not just Falkvinge. Falkvinge is a bit blunter about the consequences of strictly enforcing the rather long-lived and widely-cast privilege we in the US now grant than the economists and lawyers are.