Re:Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
by account42 on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:18AM
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If you are saying that copyright is entirely obsolete now that authors can cheaply distribute their own contents via the internat without having to rely on publishers who might not pay them, then I agree.
Re:Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
by slightwinder on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:36AM
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No, I do not, and you are wrong. Internet does not solve the problem of Publishers ripping of creators. Instead modern technology intensifys the problem even more. This is happeng already today in the grey areas of copyright. Without copyright world would likely go full back down to the lowest levels of culture.
That's ridiculous. Copyright exists becauce in the past bad actors misused the liberty of culture to exploit poor creators by selling their work without paying them anything at all. In the grand picture copyright is good, because it enables cretors to live from their work, and let's them invest into bigger pieces of culture of higher quality.
What we need is to ensure a balance between the commercial interessts and societies interesst.