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> As if they have a right to sales. They don’t. They have the right to sell their wares. You have the right to not buy if you dislike the terms. No one has the
by christophilus 3y ago
> As if they have a right to sales.
They don’t. They have the right to sell their wares. You have the right to not buy if you dislike the terms. No one has the right to steal.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThe caveat here is excessive length of copyright protection, which is provided with tax dollars for the judicial system, as well as externalities like abusive copyright takedown notices. Make the copyright term 10, 15, or even 20 years at most and the “justification” to “steal” gets a lot weaker.
- buro9 3y ago> No one has the right to steal. To copy. This is copyright, not theft, which is why this is civil law rather than criminal law. Also law... just because something is law does not make it correct. Things which in hindsight should never have been legal in the most obvious way (slavery, apartheid, etc) were legal in their time. Copyright doesn't feel even as obvious as those things.
- RHSeeger 3y agoAnd to follow it a bit further, (my understanding is that) copyright was created not because the creators have some inherent right to control what they created but, rather, to promote the creation of such works for the betterment of society as a whole. From: U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8 [1] > To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; [1] https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html