It seems to be a popular view around here that copyright is bad, and should be abolished. Mainly because large corporations own copyrighted works, and sometimes abuse copyright law.
People who hold that view are IMHO idiots, with no understanding what copyright is, or how it works.
All I can say to them is this: be careful what you wish for.
grin
•And now for something else; you're unnecessarily rude. They are not idiots, they are ignorants.
Jenny List
•Mark Gardner
•Jenny List
•@mjgardner I think that may be a separate discussion. But yes.
Wrt copyright, the problem is that people have seemingly no idea it applies to them too. And their favourite open source software creator, or webcomic artist, and so on.
grin
•Hah. Don't pick on the "people", most institutions and companies have only a vague and often baseless image as well.
@mjgardner
Jenny List
•@grin @mjgardner
I write about copyright and how it works as part of my job as a freelance journalist covering the open source community. I see the best fight against copyright abuse coming in education about the topic. If that's picking on the people, then perhaps you should educate yourself on the topic too.