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There has been a campaign for decades to try to spread the idea that was rejected in the US constitution. The idea that copyright exists as an entitlement for copyright owners. And you can that expressed in almost everything they say about it starting and ending with the word “pirate” which is used to give the impression that making an unauthorised copy is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship and kidnapping or killing the people on board.
So if you look at the statements being made by publishers you find lots of implicit assumptions of this sort which you have to drag into the open and then start questioning.
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This quote is from Richard Stallman and is talking about software but what he says in that snippet applies to other forms of copyright too. Stallman is a bit extreme in some ways but I think he makes a very good point about hidden assumptions.