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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Who says the public deserves free use of someone else's works?
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The public does, hence the creation of copyright acts to encourage the creation of useful works for the public and the encouragement of learning, by means of granting the creators
temporary monopolies (to borrow there phrase).
Despite protestation, the fact that that
is the reason for copyright is clearly stated in all those cited laws.
That
is the principle. Society views knowledge and culture as something that belongs to society for the good of society, and has chosen to secure it for the future by artificially granting a short term private ownership.
I think this is blatantly evident and well documented in the laws themselves and no post saying "no it isn't" should sway anyone who can read.
The only question should be "how long should that temporary term be."
ApK