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Imagine a world where the statutory damages for destroying all legal copies of a copyrighted work was set to be 1000x the statutory damages for making an unauth
by hedora 3y ago
Imagine a world where the statutory damages for destroying all legal copies of a copyrighted work was set to be 1000x the statutory damages for making an unauthorized copy.
Surely, deleting the last copy of a thing deprives more people of the work (and does more damage to the original author) than failing to pay for a copy of the thing.
- kmeisthax 3y agoDestroying all copies of a work (aside from the masters) benefits the owner, because now people have to pay the owner for more copies. This is why the publishers at the top of the creative class hierarchy regularly cycle things in and out of print. Note that this may screw over individual authors, but the copyright system was not built to benefit them. Otherwise we wouldn't allow copyright assignment, we'd have "inalienable" copyright instead.