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by schiffern
4567 days ago
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>piracy internationally This phrase makes no sense. Copyright is a temporary* artificial monopoly invented by the state to encourage the useful arts. If your state creates no such monopoly for a given work, then definitionally no copyright infringement ("piracy") can occur. *the USA's original default copyright term was 14 years. Remarkably, this coincides with the modern economically optimal copyright term. Since the modern term exceeds that length, copyright results in a net transfer of economic value from the public to copyright holders (to the detriment of the overall economy). http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/07/research-optima... |
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