Quote:
Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
• The purpose of copyright is not just to encourage artists, it is also to protect the integrity of the artists' / distributor's / publisher's work and commercial interests. As per usual, Stallman's recommendations to fund artists are -- at best -- hopelessly idealistic. (However, I fully support an artists' or publisher's right to try alternate distribution models, whether commercial or non-commercial in origin.)
|
I don't know about your country (whatever that is), but in the USA, copyright has only one purpose as detailed in the Constitution:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
In other words, protecting the artists' interests are means, not ends in and of themselves.
Now this does not mean I support protecting the interest of authors. It does mean however that I believe that copyright has started to drift from its intended purpose of getting works into the public domain.
[quote]