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>What laws? All natural rights, life (bodily functions e.g. the right to eat not to have something to eat), speech, association etc. Broadly defined as anythin
by casey2 4y ago
>What laws?
All natural rights, life (bodily functions e.g. the right to eat not to have something to eat), speech, association etc. Broadly defined as anything a person can do that doesn't require violence or compulsion.
If someone says something in public then I have the right to say it.
A way to get around this is by making every viewing of copyrighted material a private contract. e.g. "You can only own a license for personal use of this movie if pay and agree not to share it."
But, if somebody does break that contract and shares the movie publicly, going only by natural rights everyone who watched it would be able to share. Since book publishers didn't like this they lobbied for our current "unnatural" copyright laws.
Why people don't like this now generally falls into three camps with some overlap
1) People who want free books, movies and software.
2) People who want all books, movies and software to be libre.
3) People who don't want the government to create a protected class of license holders, for various reasons (anticommunism, traditionalism etc.)