Why should one human help others? Why the image one gets for free must be free for others? Why does the free culture appear, and the free software, and the free music, and the free art, and the free books?
Nobody knows, for the profit numbers cannot explain the humanity.
Why the intellectual property lawyers created the laws that lead to copyright protection for 70 years after the author's death, without any heirs, so the rightholders are indeterminate or uncontactable?
Easy to say. Because some authors love dead money and hate people alive. Because the copyright monsters removed soul of those authors and placed the profit in its place.
Russian people hate those rightholders. This is why Mr. Sergei Mikhalkov (the famous copyright activist, ex cinema director) is cursed every minute, is blamed as the people's enemy, is called a true Satan in flesh. This is why noone here dares to express his craving for copyright -- and to avoid eternal damnation. This is why the freedom of Creative Commons is so popular around Russian workers and peasants.
Do you pay for the right to copy some intellectual property -- the artistic image of travellers in trains, the wooden carvings in villages, the architecture (of unknown yet copyright-holding authors), the bear sculptures in the parks, the Yeltsin photograph on billboard and the pirated images by Soviet photographers, and the logos, etc, etc? -- There is too much copyright around us. And the rightholders of it want their money right now, even on weekend.
Photographers like blogger Varlamov love to gain money, yet none of them loves to part with money, paying for the right to copy or paying for their models. Because they avoid seeing others around. Because they only have eyes for money.
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Date: 2015-03-15 05:50 pm (UTC)Nobody knows, for the profit numbers cannot explain the humanity.
Why the intellectual property lawyers created the laws that lead to copyright protection for 70 years after the author's death, without any heirs, so the rightholders are indeterminate or uncontactable?
Easy to say. Because some authors love dead money and hate people alive. Because the copyright monsters removed soul of those authors and placed the profit in its place.
Russian people hate those rightholders. This is why Mr. Sergei Mikhalkov (the famous copyright activist, ex cinema director) is cursed every minute, is blamed as the people's enemy, is called a true Satan in flesh. This is why noone here dares to express his craving for copyright -- and to avoid eternal damnation. This is why the freedom of Creative Commons is so popular around Russian workers and peasants.
Do you pay for the right to copy some intellectual property -- the artistic image of travellers in trains, the wooden carvings in villages, the architecture (of unknown yet copyright-holding authors), the bear sculptures in the parks, the Yeltsin photograph on billboard and the pirated images by Soviet photographers, and the logos, etc, etc? -- There is too much copyright around us. And the rightholders of it want their money right now, even on weekend.
Photographers like blogger Varlamov love to gain money, yet none of them loves to part with money, paying for the right to copy or paying for their models. Because they avoid seeing others around. Because they only have eyes for money.