[Upd-discuss] Copyright has no purpose

[Michael Hart]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:

> That's an amazing statement.
>
> Do you think she was thinking that copyright was some kind of human's right 
> like the liberty of expression, the habeas corpus, etc.

Copyright is, and always has been, mostly a "corporate right" designed
for the express purpose of limiting "human rights" as they existed before
the advent of each successive copyright law since 1710.

Michael S. Hart