One reason is that journalists influence public opinion and thus their opinion carries weight with the average politician. Journalists often pretty strongly support copyright because they need it in order to earn a salary.
Re:Better than Free (2008)
by incompatible on Sunday May 28, 2017 @04:54AM
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There are plenty of countries where journalists fear politicians instead. That can't be the whole story.
How strong is copyright protection enforced there?
Those are simply much more important subjects for their votes than copyright.
Legalizing Marijuana is more important than copyright? I disagree. Copyright is about how we handle our cultural heritage and how we compensate those who produce those artifacts. To me that is a way more important topic than the war on drugs.
That's not what he said.
And don't make the false assumption that you can't have attribution or compensation without copyright.
If you smoke Marijuana(like many), yes, it is a very important issue for you not to risk going to jail, etc.
Re:Better than Free (2008)
by moonforeshot on Monday May 29, 2017 @12:48AM
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petra's just being cynical towards politicians...
Journalists and newspapers as we know them today are deathly afraid of becoming obsolete, which they in many ways already are. What they're doing now with ads and paywalls is just delaying their extinction for a bit. I doubt you will find many journalists in favor of copyright law vitiation. Or writers in general, musicians, etc.
Edit: Legalize Marijuana, vote the likes of Trump into power, leave the EU, threaten to nuke the US, fine, but some things, like intellectual property, are sacred.