> The last few Congresses, filled as they are with politvermin, have
> loused up many things not only royally, but beyond belief. Nevertheless,
> copyright in and of itself is a good thing -- inter alia, copyleft, the GNU
> license, and similar good things, couldn't live without it.
Copyleft—the GNU license, Creative Commons etc.—as I understand them,
are clever hacks designed to subvert the copyright system as it
stands, basically to *free* people from it. Artists who choose these
licenses are expressing disgust with the system.
These licenses may derive their legal teeth from copyright itself, but
they exist as criticisms of it. They are good, I'd say, not because of
our copyright system but in spite of it.
I hear this "We have a crappy implementation of it, but copyright is
good in principle" idea often, but I'm not sure I know which principle
is being talked about.
What is this principle? Can we name it?
> --
> Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeonly Codger Learning Linux
> On the Internet, you can never tell who is a dog --
> supposing you care -- but you can tell who has a mind.
Simón
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