Related text from https://www.techdirt.com/2011/04/08/if-youre-arguing-that-someone-deserves-copyright-your-argument-is-wrong/ https://www.techdirt.com/2011/04/

Related text from https://www.techdirt.com/2011/04/08/if-youre-arguing-that-someone-deserves-copyright-your-argument-is-wrong/ https://www.techdirt.com/2011/04/08/if-youre-arguing-that-so...: > Julian Sanchez, who has been doing excellent work on copyright issues of late, has a nice post about how such arguments are totally irrelevant to copyright policy. He notes that it’s no surprise that artistic and creative people want greater copyright privileges, and fewer exceptions such as fair use, but that’s meaningless: > > These will often be wonderful, likeable, creative people, and the correct policy response to these objections as such is: Cry me a fucking river; now piss off. > And the reasoning why is that copyright policy is not about what someone deserves or about rewarding people based on some moral grounding. Its purpose is and has always been clear: to provide incentive to promote progress.