Why The Copyright Industry Isn’t a Legitimate Stakeholder in Copyright

Why The Copyright Industry Isn’t a Legitimate Stakeholder in Copyright(torrentfreak.com)

8 points by alexkay 15 years ago | 4 comments

benologist 15 years ago |

"Bricklayers don’t have laws guaranteeing they make money, marketers don’t, plumbers don’t, and nobody else does, either."

They do if you take their services/products.

bediger 15 years ago | |

Right. That's because a brick wall, marketing collateral and sewage or water or gas pipes are physical goods. You can in fact, "take" their products. Nobody can tell if you make a copy. In fact for digital music, technically speaking, copying is required to reproduce the actual sound waves.

Also, in the real world, you've got contracts between the buyer of a good or service and the manufacturer of a good, or the provider of a service. It's a civil law problem if one doesn't pay. The "intellectual property" maximalists are asking to make infringements (note: not theft) a criminal offense, which is government support.

benologist 15 years ago | | |

Relying on physical vs ephemeral conveniently ignores that the cost to reproduce something has no relation to the cost to produce something. The other person/party not being aware of what you've done is pretty irrelevant regardless of whether something is physical.

In the real world you also have criminal law between you and the other person before you purchase something and establish that civil contract.