[Upd-discuss] #2 Copyright Brief History

[sandor]

Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:

>> However. . .it is obvious to anyone who takes a look at the origins of
>> our copyright system that the entire thing originated NOT with gov'ts
>> encouraging businesses to create copyright laws, but with. . .
>>
>> BUSINESSES ENCOURAGING GOVERNMENTS TO CREATE COPYRIGHT LAWS.
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> So once again, we need to stress the fact that copyright laws don't 
> protect the authors, nor the public, nor the creations... they protect 
> businesses. We need to propagate "desenchantement" about this because 
> everybody take for granted that copyright laws protect artists...
>
> So :
>
> current application of copyright laws tend to protect businesses 
> against authors whenitshould aim at protecting creations and 
> developing the spread of culture throughout the public
>
> Am I right ?

    I would agree with you - given the assumption that copyright law in 
some form is required.
   
    As Michael states - the concept of the necessity of the law was 
first advanced by biased interests. I should think a critical analysis 
might start here - and first determine the validity of this thinking.
    The artist is currently renumerated based on the artificial 
framework we have created - so to analyze whether one could be 
successful without this framework, we must consider this without 
ourselves being constrained. I am unsure if this is even possible... To 
enact legislation as a preventative measure seems a bit poor... So 
unless we define an existing issue that requires legislation, and this 
issue must exist wholly outside our current system, we have no rationale 
for legislation? I am curious to people's reasoning on this initial 
question...

-sándor