to list as well. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 14 Feb 2008 19:43 Subject: Re: paying artists (was: Re: Freedom or Copyright? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation) (FSF) To: Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 14/02/2008, Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really don't buy into the "they don't have a right to earn a living > unless they can make money on it on their own" arguments that some > people have implied. It is possible to view copyright as a kind of > monopoly, but in a true economic sense, it's nothing of the sort because > equivalent goods and services are available from a range of different > places (in the case of music, perhaps not as many as you'd want, but > still not a true monopoly). This appears to be attempting to argue semantics. The whole point of copyright is to provide an entirely artificial monopoly. The social question then becomes what that is for. Your posts to this list have been largely equivocation; you're now trying to retrospectively redefine your terms. - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
