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- Children, please remember:
- RIAA bad, Musk good.
- Artists bad, Altman good.
- Authors bad, Amodei good.
by 1223aZ - You should add [video] to the title.by beardyw
- It’s been about control of culture and rent seeking for a long timeby oldgregg
- Copyright makes perfect sense for the purpose it was originally invented for: censorship.
The British monarchy created copyright, literally to control what printers were allowed to copy. To enforce this, printing presses were tightly regulated, with severe criminal penalties for operating an unlicensed press. Basically what Big Copyright wants for their own purposes.
by fmajid - A scholarly and far more rigorous argument against copyright and patents can be found in Against Intellectual Monopoly by economists Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. "We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty."
It's a published book you can buy in hard copy (I bought the ebook on Kindle) but practicing what they preach it's freely available online, http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
by wahern