[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Eric Priezkalns]

On 21 Oct 2009, at 16:26, Richard Stallman wrote:

> It is a mistake to judge copyright issues primarily in terms of what
> might be good for the copyright holder.  The issue is what's good for
> the public.

Beautifully put.

 From the principle of delivering what's good for the public, we can  
derive the need to also deliver some good to the copyright holder - in  
order to appropriately incentivize creation, get optimal results for  
the public, and because the copyright holder is also part of the  
public.  But we can't derive the need to deliver good to the public by  
starting with what is optimal for the copyright holder.  Optimizing  
the good of one party in preference to the interests of many must  
inevitably result in some form of tyranny.

E