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Originally Posted by tompe
That is not true. There is no idea of "proper compensation" in the motivation for copyright. It was designed to solve the problem of how to get people to not stop to create things.
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Well, how do you think they planned to solve the problem? By guaranteeing creators compensation for their efforts, as encouragement for creating and sharing. That's the whole point of copyright and patent law... pure capitalism at work, "If you do it, the government will make sure you get paid something for it."
Now, we can debate matters like "proper" and "fair" and "value" until the cows come home (and one of your anarchist neighbors shoots one of your cows for dinner
), but "compensation" is clearly the point.