On Tue, 24 May 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote:
I seriously doubt that without copyrights there would be very little creation. Just look at all the wonderful content you can find on the Internet that is available to the public. Artists create because they _need_ to create. I am an artist and have written some stories:
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I'm pretty sure that's the case for other sorts of media.
Actually, some forms of media are only created due to the expectation of financial gain, or at least the possibility of financial compensation. Take movies for example, or most software (even open source), and also music. Without a mechanism that ensures compensation to the funders of the meida (not the artists), there will be very little creation, simply because it costs too much.
Copyrights used to be important to make sure creation was continued because at the time, media did not have an electronic representation and facilitated copying. You could not have duplicated a book in the same ease as today's cp or wget commands. Thus, writers who wanted to publish their books needed some sort of legal protection to make sure they can make a living out of selling these books. This is akin to the Hebrew term of "Zkhuyuth Yotsrim" or "Originator rights".
Quite the contrary. Copyright was initiated because the printing press made mass-distribution feasible, and thus the cost of a copy was very cheap. The purpose of copyright was to allow creations be mass-duplicated and still have a financial incentive for creating them. This worked well with limited time limited scope copyright, as the original copyright law was. This doesn't work with the copyright laws we have today.
2. I did not do anything wrong. Copying and re-distribution of copyrighted work is fully legitimate according to the First Sale Principle of copyright law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#The_first-sale_doctrine
Even if it is, obtaining the copy is very much illegal. Furthermore, Israel copyright law does not allow even the creation of backup copies, except on certified media, and of course prohibits this kind of distribution. See
Well, sharing copyrighted mp3's and videos is legal. (at least legal according to absolute ethics - the law of the land may deviate from it). In any case, if it's not under Hamakor's agenda to protect such activities, I'm looking for an organization which does.
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