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Originally Posted by pwalker8
+1 This is the way consumers tend to look at things.
Fundamentally, copyright is basically about who has the right to make money on copyrighted material. Who has the right to sell copies of that material. Sometimes people who discuss copyright get caught up in the mechanics of making copies or preventing copies from being made, when that isn't really the point of copyright. It's all about who has the right to make money selling copies of a specific work.
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Originally Posted by itisbomb
 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. |
Did it really take 115 posts before anyone thought to ask what copyright is actually for?
