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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Fundamentally, copyright is basically about who has the right to make money on copyrighted material.
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Spot on.
From economic view point, copyright is a necessary evil. It is evil because copyright is nothing more than a scheme to create monopoly (albeit a legal one). It is necessary because without it a would-be creator of copyrighted work would have no incentive to create the said work. Economists always feel uncomfortable towards copyright, but are not yet bright enough to come up with a workable alternative.