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>Copyright is primarily about protecting your ecconomic rights no, copyright is about creating an economic right where one didn't exist before.
by fsckboy 3mo ago
>Copyright is primarily about protecting your ecconomic rights
no, copyright is about creating an economic right where one didn't exist before.
- pluralmonad 3mo agoSo mostly it is restricting natural property rights.
- bawolff 3mo agoCopyright didn't come out of nothing, it largely evolved out of censorship regimes. Having copyright being about protecting authors economic rights instead of being about censorship or printer's ecconomic interests, was a huge step forward.