On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 08:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com writes:
The end goal is to redistribute money, roughly from the consumer to the artist.
That's *not* the goal of copyright.
The goal of (USA) copyright is to promote "the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
Possibly it escaped your attention, but I'm not American, and neither is this list.
If you want a modern analysis of the balance between progress of the arts and the stimulation of producers, the UK's Gowers review is useful. In continental Europe, things are different again, since there is a much stronger adherence to moral rights, which have little to do with the economics.
Again, I hold that everyone has the right to attempt to earn a living. If society does not value their specific activities enough to pay them a living income, though, then they fail; and that is not a violation of their rights.
Sure, and I would sign up to that.
Cheers,
Alex.