But a copyright, even a traditional, pre-Berne convention US copyright is exactly and precisely a monopoly. A copyright is a state-granted monopoly privilege o

But 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.