Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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". Redistributing money is only ever a means to this explicit end. A system that focusses on redistributing money to the detriment of progress in science and useful arts is *failing* at the stated goal of copyright. > 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. 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. -- \ "Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they | `\ themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors | _o__) were dead and in Hell." -- Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
