[Penelope420]

Originally Posted by Dark_Angers

As I see copyright it should be for giving credit to the creator. What I mean is, so someone can't come along and say they took the picture when you did. This is what copyright should be and only be. In Spain this is how copyright is looked at.

That's not what copyright law is. Copyright law is to prevent people from distributing and profiting on other people's work. It's not about getting credit. A credit line doesn't pay my bills. It's about protecting artist's rights. Get it... Copy. Rights.

Same is true for a CD player or TV the artist got paid already for their work why should people pay twice. If I buy a CD I should be able to do what I want with it I paid money for it. Example, if I buy a loaf of bread and give it out for free, and the baker tries to come around and collect money from everyone eating the bread nobody would listen to the baker. It is an absurd thing of the baker to do,

Sorry, but again, that's not how copyright law works. And thank fucking god it doesn't work that way, because I would have been out of business a long time ago.

You can't compare a loaf of bread to a book or a CD. If you buy a book you own the right to read that specific copy of the work, but you don't own the words and phrases in the book. If you buy a poster, you own the piece of paper that poster is printed on, you do not own the rights to the art on that poster. That belongs solely to the creator of the work (and possibly the publisher). If you want a book or a CD or a poster that you can do whatever you want with, then MAKE YOUR OWN. Don't take it from someone else.

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“I’ll say it for the hundredth time: If I buy a book and read it, and then give you the book to read, I have broken no laws. Why is that not true for all media?” - Michael Moore

Michael Moore is a tard. You can buy a CD, and then give a that copy of your CD to a friend, but you can't MAKE COPIES of that CD to distribute. The law is exactly the same for books.

Also the amount of time a recording staying in copyright is bullshit. The artist should plan like anyone else for retirement. Why should they get money once they stop working? In the new age it should be if they want more money when they are old they should have toured more when they were young.

So let's talk about a tangible object. Let's say I design and build a wooden cabinet. Don't I have the right to pass it down to my family?

Why should a song be any different? Why do you think YOU have more rights to that song then the person who created it in the first place?

A person who spends a life time creating music, has the right to pass the rights to that music on to his/her children. That's the beauty of creating copyrighted work, it can continue to earn money for you long after you've stopped working. If you don't like that, then create your own copyrighted work, and collect the royalties yourself, rather then stealing it from someone else.

We've become such an entitled society that just because something is out there, it's MINE! I want free books, and free music, and free art, BECAUSE I CAN, DAMMIT! Fuck the artists who are creating this stuff for me to enjoy in the first place!