Who owns information, ideas and fun, part 2
(this page is part of the Family Guide to Digital Freedom, 2007 edition. Please do read that introduction to know more about the Guide, especially if you mean to comment this page. Thanks)
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Who owns information, ideas and fun?
(this page is part of the Family Guide to Digital Freedom, 2007 edition. Please do read that introduction to know more about the Guide, especially if you mean to comment this page. Thanks)
Who owns information, ideas and fun?
Copyright is the legal right to control or prevent, within certain bounds and for a limited period of time, the distribution of creative works. Copyright can be a great incentive for authors, the fairest way to reward them and, eventually, a great advantage for society as a whole.
Would all the other businesses and jobs suffer be better off without the Digital Dangers?
(this page is part of the Family Guide to Digital Freedom, 2007 edition. Please do read that introduction to know more about the Guide, especially if you mean to comment this page. Thanks)
The second reason to fight Digital Dangers just in order to boost the (local) economy is to make it much more affordable to start up and run a small business in any field. For an artist, fighting the Digital Dangers makes it much easier to live off the profits of his or her own talent, be they from copyright or other sources, with much more control than is often possible today.
A Free Software Manifesto For All Of Us
(historical note: I first put this online in October 2006, at digifreedom.net. In the following years, I reorganized my websites several times… until this piece went offline. I put it back at this new URL, with (almost) all the links updated, in December 2013)