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| Shadow1980 said: That's an issue of property rights, and therefore it's a question for the law to answer. And I'm going to go over that in depth here, so there won't be a short version. Also, since I'm an American, I will be focusing on U.S. law. The laws will obviously differ in other nations. |
I won't (and can't) argue with your post. But I just want to point out, that laws are an artificial thing humans created. They are not natural. They can be shaped in any form we want.
There was a time no copyright laws existed, then it was willed into existance. In theory we could change laws. In practice big companies profit from the way things are (otherwise they wouldn't have grown big in the first place) and so they use their power to keep things as they are or even escalate them in their favor. It is hard for consumers to fight against that. That money interests can shape the laws is only possible, because the law is actually artificial, man-made. No company can change the realities of the natural sciences. But they can influence the change of created things, like laws.
So for me the question how law currently is, is not unimportant (after all i have to follow laws), but I think the more interesting question is: how should the laws be shaped in an ideal world?
