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Story: ISPs, rights groups react to gov't P2P proposals
Copyright?
Looks like everyone forgot what copyright stands for. I should promote the progress and learning, and copyright is synthetic right given by the society to the authors to encourage them to give back their works to the society. It is not for megaincome for megamediacorps. Whether author does not create anything new - what is the purpose of protecting this right? Can beatles write new songs? Can Elvis? Why the hell these materials are still copyrighted? To protect "beneficiaries"? Who the hell are they and why the society should protect their rights? Wheat a hell prodection after the author's death stands for? What creative work could dead author give the society?
From other perspective - what a hell bad will happened if the "copyrighted material" will not be protected so long? Why mediacorps have that special right to control information flow in the cost of other people rights? It comes really true that in near future there will not be devices that allows us replication of media materials even when we already paid for it. The replication price was the problem in other industries. In the information area this is not problem anymore. And what we are doing? We are preventing this device to be manufactured by the law to protect someones income. Oh my god - may be we start to suppress innovations in energy area to protect gas and oil monopolies? Stop engineering - new cheap devises make someone lose his income. Bring this farmer to the jail - his cheap apples makes looses in my supermarket network. What a hell is this - protecting someones income by the law? Obligating others to pay to the mediacorps by the law for the synthetic right society gives to the creative person?
Does our world go crazy?
Todays copyright law is not for the progress and is not for the learning. It is protection for medialobby megaincomes. It's a new era tax for society. Nowadays copyright law should be reviewed. The terms should be really shortened. There exclusive right transferring should be banned, the protected copyright should remains in the author's hands.
No more exclusive contracts. No more protection for the life and after death. No more long term protections - no giving to the society - no right protection from the society.
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