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Why should the person who first arrange a series of words in a particular order have the power to prevent other people from arranging words into the same order,
by AndrewDucker 12y ago
Why should the person who first arrange a series of words in a particular order have the power to prevent other people from arranging words into the same order, in perpetuity?
Copyright prevents the free speech of others. There's some justification for it doing so. But it's not a natural, or absolute, right.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoThere are exceptions to copyright to minimise the impact on free speech (satire, news for example). I guess people's opinions on this will ultimately come down to their views on free speech and that varies throughout the world.
- rjaco31 12y agoDMCA is pretty sloppy when it comes to separate copyright infringement from satire..
- sp332 12y agoThe US Constitution does not recognize ideas as property. Copyrights and patents are limited-time incentives which may be granted by the government to encourage creativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause Also, satire isn't protected, but parody is.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoThe US constitution does not effect me. Thanks for the correction on satire/parody, got them mixed up.
- webXL 12y agoThe power to prevent others from copying the arrangement is an incentive to arrange in the first place. But it should be limited. Property rights allow me to restrict your speech when your literally on my government sanctioned land. I don't see much difference when it comes to IP. Edit: copyright should be more limited than physical property rights, so I'm in agreement. But neither can be absolute when the government only has a piece of paper to abide by that prevents them from being revoked.