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Originally Posted by John Prophet  Although you are technically correct, copyright laws are about as fair as they can be.
So ask yourself, do you disagree with copyright laws because you know, deep down, that you will never benefit from them and that having them around only impedes you in getting free stuff? Asking yourself these sorts of questions is essential to personal development and improvement.
I’ll just assume that any negative feedback that I receive from this post, means that I’m closer to the mark then some might like. |
Actually, copyright law, at least in the United States, is supposed to be time-limited. The idea is that you can create something, get some legal protections to allow yourself to earn something for it, and then it goes into the public domain so that more works can be created based upon your initial work.
Today, copyright law is still limited, but it might as well be forever since the terms are now long enough to last longer than the life of the person who created the work. Disney is always used as an example since Walt Disney pretty much built his entire company out of using public domain works to create new works. Fairy tales were turned into motion pictures and theme parks and books and television shows. Today, however, you are not allowed to base your works off of the works of Disney, even though the first such works were made many decades ago.
Oh, we have fair use, but it isn't the same. I also found this video on YouTube which uses fair use to explain fair use and copyright law.
YouTube - A Fair(y) Use Tale
I disagree with the current copyright laws because I find that I can't benefit from them the way that we were intended to benefit from them. It isn't that I want something for nothing. It is that I feel that creators from 50 or 100 years ago had a better ability to build upon someone's work than I do on those same creator's works today. Why should they get such a long monopoly while reaping the fruits of the past? Who are they that they get such a one-sided advantage over culture?
Also, negative feedback on my post may mean that I am off the mark. I'll accept that as a possibility. B-)