Alex Mace wrote:
It all seems moot to me anyway. No one is required to enforce or protect
their copyright. If David or whoever wants to live in a copyright free
world, then go right ahead.
The greater problem is that copyright has been abused both by end users
and corporations. The Associated Press's attempts to claim copyright
over short excerpts from articles and the music industries attempts to
stop copyright-infringement, even when there is no commercial gain for
the infringer has, in my opinion, destroyed copyright as it existed. If
I am breaking the law and will be prosecuted by rights-holders for the
simple act of transferring "my" media from one format to another, then
something is very broken.
My personal view is that fair use should be extended to cover all
personal-use copying. You should really only be infringing copyright if
you make money based off someone else's work without permission or
recompense.
Or is that just too logical?
Yes, so logical the Spanish have done something similar.
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