Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> PS IMO copyright laws should be abolished altogether. At the very >> least one should pay for copyright protection. One €1 for the first >> year, €2 for the second, €4 for the third and so on exponentially. > > Why should I have to pay money for the right to own my own creations?
You shouldn't have to. IMO the government shouldn't interfere with other people distributing your creations without your permission. I offered a compromise: the government steps in to defend your monopoly to your creation and you will pay for the protection -- exponentially. > At what point does a creation have to be paid for - do I pay only if I > think that I can make money off it? If I fail to pay, what happens - No money, no protection. > are people allowed to completely reuse and remix my work without even > acknowledging me? That would be ideal, absolutely! > And who would you pay that to anyway? The one world government? A good question! If I violate your foreign copyright in my country, which country should enforce the collection of damages? There's a precedent. If I send you a letter by mail, only my country's postal service gets money but your country's postal service will deliver it to you without compensation. > the protections are important and extremely useful. Disagree there. > Open source would not exist without copyright, because it is copyright > law that gives license terms their meaning. Some people would lose, others would win. On the balance, society would win out by dropping the concept of a copyright. > If people had to pay exorbitant rates for the privilege of being > properly credited for their work, theft would completely trump > generosity. That wouldn't be theft. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
