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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Current copyright law does recognize the financial interests of the artists (e.g. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf, § 801) and it's very clear that recent changes in US law, at least, intend to protect an artists' commercial interests. |
According to the constitution, it is supposed to be about encouraging artists. I will agree that the current laws have been expanded (aka abused) to make their primary objective be the protection of commercial interests. Originally, that is not what copyright was supposed to be used for (and was not until congress sold out to those commercial interests).