[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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