[pp.int.general] Purpose of copyright

[Reinier Bakels]

This document may be helpful: http://www.ivir.nl/publications/hugenholtz/thegreatcopyrightrobbery.pdf

And: don't list to economists! They start from the perspective of a "homo economicus" which is a strange animal totally uninterested in culture.

Incidentally, European "author's right" is different from American "copyright". The latter is more oriented towards society, the former to the "author". Which in practice is often the publisher. Where it all goes wrong.

Well, the attached document gives all the clues!

reinier
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