Archive for July 22nd, 2008

Question Copyright

QuestionCopyright.org:

There is one group of people not shocked by the record industry’s policy of suing randomly chosen file sharers: historians of copyright. They already know what everyone else is slowly finding out: that copyright was never about paying artists for their work, and that far from being designed to support creators, copyright was designed by and for distributors — that is, publishers, which today includes record companies….

To read the full article whose first few sentences are quoted above, click here. Otherwise, I encourage you to look around the site, and give this question a serious thought: “In today’s society, do we still need (if we ever did!) copyright?”