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This is not a political stance, but one of basic questions of authorship and what compensation authors should receive and what control they should have over the
by WillAdams 2y ago
This is not a political stance, but one of basic questions of authorship and what compensation authors should receive and what control they should have over their work.
See arguments by Alexander Pope in Pope _V._ Curll.
- mistrial9 2y agowhen China decided to wholesale ignore Western copyright in the digital age, completely.. the equation changed IMHO.
- WillAdams 2y agoYes, but dealing with that politically would be made easier by having the moral high ground.
- mannyv 2y agoNot really, because it depends on the basis of morality. In fact, this 'morality' problem is shown in the existence of libraries in the US. Is a book a collective good? Or property? In the US the answer is 'both' in an awkward way. But the US does know that having books behind a paywall is not in society's best interest. And in reality 99% of the books will never be read, which makes their 'value' as property suspect.
- WillAdams 2y agoIf so few books are to be read, then why is it so difficult to pay for those which are?
- bawolff 2y ago> This is not a political stance, but one of basic questions of authorship and what compensation authors should receive and what control they should have over their work. Questions of compensation and ownership are one of the most political questions of all. What exactly do you think communist revolutions were revolting over?
- WillAdams 2y agoHow to employ and feed and compensate the masses.