[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?
Richard Stallman
rms at gnu.org
Thu Oct 22 11:44:39 CEST 2009
I strongly disagree. It's flawed in the same way like for example "the
point is not what's good for the businessmen, it is what's good to the
public" - all such ideas imply that the copyright
holders/businessmen/employers/whatever are not part of the "public" and
more, are opposed to it,
Copyright holders are a special interest -- a small part of the
public. Copyright gives them privileges over everyone else.
Privileges are generally very beneficial for the beneficiaries. That
alone cannot be enough to justify a privilege.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html
for more explanation of the point.
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