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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
...reasonably serves the actual purpose of the general public (who ultimately are suppose to be the real beneficiaries of copyright, not the artists).
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I would disagree with that. Copyright is designed to be a win-win.
1. The creators of the works get exclusive rights to their work for a certain amount of time so that they can benefit from the sale of copies of their work.
2. The public gets new works added to the public domain.
So, since authors get a benefit from their work, they are willing to create more. If there was no protection at all, less authors would create or publish works which means less would eventually make it to public domain.
So, copyright is designed to benefit both the individual creator and the public. As you say, this has been warped toward the side of the individuals to the detriment of the public.
BOb