Written from a capitalist perspective, extolling "market forces" and legitimizing corporate and government limitations on copying. "between 1923 and 1963 ... c

Written from a capitalist perspective, extolling "market forces" and legitimizing corporate and government limitations on copying. "between 1923 and 1963 ... copyrights back then had to be renewed, and often the rightsholder wouldn’t bother filing the paperwork" - oh no, how terrible. How lucky we are that in these modern times one doesn't even have to file paperwork in order to prevent you from copying information. and they go on to suck to Google and decry how they didn't get to legitimize their control over a large swath of human knowledge and cultural heritage. "It certainly seems unlikely that someone is going to spend political capital—especially today—trying to change the licensing regime for books, let alone old ones." <- copyright regime, licensing regime - all of this stuff is illegitimate apriori. Poetry, literature, music, software, papers and books - we cannot and must not tolerate restrictions on their dissemination. What arrangements the commercial and governmental entities come to, our "arrangement" should be that everything gets disseminated widely and without restriction, so that curtailment, censorship, commercial control etc. just fail.