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Like moveable type in the late Middle Ages, the Internet has tattoo introduced a way for the creators and end users of information to bypass that control and deal directly with one another. Copyright tattoo did not come into being as a way of protecting inherent property rights. Quite the contrary. Since the Renaissance, the "natural" condition of information is that it belongs to society at large. Even under copyright law, it tattoo is not the work itself that is owned - even by its creator - but the right to make copies of it. Copyright law came into being to allow creators of information to support themselves in an industrial economy by exercising limited, temporary, property-like rights with respect to what they created. It has failed miserably in that purpose, by the way. Most creators of information still cannot support themselves by that alone. |
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