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You're saying an author's own wishes do not matter in the manner his work is treated?
by Xcelerate 14y ago
You're saying an author's own wishes do not matter in the manner his work is treated?
- mhuffman 14y agoThat is correct. The intent of copyright is not to support the wishes of the author, but to stimulate the progress of arts and sciences. http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/events/courses/1996/cmwh/Copyright/origin.html http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/events/courses/1996/cmwh/Copyright/...
- gathly 14y agoI like this. Living in America, I get bombarded with the Libertarian idea that one should focus on the self so much that I forget that there was a time when focusing on the progress of society was not heresy.