Monday, February 4, 2019

Why copyright makes no sense | The case against intellectual property



Comment:
Copyright is a form of violation of human rights.  It is the threat of penalty financial or even kidnapping by the state and denial of physical freedom, simply by virtue of sharing or using of one's own physical property in the privacy of one's home.

It requires invasion of privacy to police, and it requires abuses of others to enforce.  It is the monopoly of ideas for the enrichment of the few, to take things from the public domain and grant exclusive access, privileged access, to a few.   Such that the few enrich at the cost of the many.

Even the U.S. doctrine of fair use is missing from many other countries, yet many online creators have used others contents through fair use, and gotten decent living whilst often offering their work for free, and it additionally being reused by others.  

The archaic and barbaric notion of copyright, is like the legalization slavery, an inhumane set of laws that will one day hopefully go away.

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