Pirate Party Leader: Copyright Laws Ridiculous

smitty777 writes "Rick Falkvinge, better known as the leader for Sweden's Pirate Party, recommends doing away with copyright laws since no one is following them anyway. FTA: '...he uses examples from the buttonmakers guild in 1600s France to justify eliminating the five major parts of copyright law today. The first two are cover duplication and public performance, and piracy today has ruined those. The next two cover rights of the creator to get credit and prevent other performances, satires, remixes, etc they don't like. Falkvinge says giving credit is important, but not worthy of a law. Finally, "neighboring rights" are used by the music industry to block duplication, which Falkvinge rejects.'"

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Re:Wrong

[FlyingGuy]

Good grief who mod'd this insightful and Informative.

it is in point of fact redundant to the post they are commenting on.

If I am the copyright holder of a work, then it is my right to distribute, not distribute, charge outrageous prices for, give away for free or use the manuscript to wipe my if I so choose and no one else's for the term of the copyright.

In the case of a patent then it is my right to manufacture, not manufacture, charge outrageous license fee's, charge no license fee, give away as I so choose and no one else's for the term of the patent.

The tradeoff is that after such term of patent or copyright has expired, then and only then can someone else, in point of fact anyone else, do what they like with it.

Do I like what copyright has been perverted into? emphatically NO Do I like that your can be granted a patent for a business process, once again emphatically NO! Do I like the the fact that you can patent software, yet again emphatically NO!

Is it the law of the land? Emphatically YES! Do I write and e-mail my senators and my congressman making sound and reasoned arguments to get this changed, once again emphatically YES!

Does this do anything towards correcting this abomination? Not so far. Will I keep trying, yes.