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I feel the deprecation of copyrights must come to pass (pure speculation). Have bought into that notion some time ago. It did make me wonder how did we end up i

by ojilles 15y ago

I feel the deprecation of copyrights must come to pass (pure speculation). Have bought into that notion some time ago. It did make me wonder how did we end up in this situation in the first place? I mean, having the copyright laws in place will bring about the current Hollywood lobby, that's clear (to me). What I wonder is why did we end up with the copyright model in the first place? In the article it mentions games as something you'd rent which in the world of MMO's makes complete sense. But weren't books not kinda the same in the old days? Too expensive to own, so libraries sprung about. In that setting, you didn't need copyright either right?

arto 15y ago
> What I wonder is why did we end up with the copyright model in the first place? See Karl Fogel's excellent essay "The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World" for a good overview of how copyright laws came about back in the day: http://questioncopyright.org/promise http://questioncopyright.org/promise TLDR: copyright is an outgrowth of the privatization of government censorship in sixteenth-century England. Copyright was designed by and for distributors. The modern romantic notion of copyright existing to protect authors is, at best, a post-hoc rationalization.