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Ca arrive pas souvent :) mais voici un message que je trouve
exceptionnellement clair
sur slashdot sur le sujet, toujours dans la veine liberale.
<http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/179230>
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Re:It's all about the money (Score:5, Insightful)
by Frater 219 (1455) Neutral on Sunday February 02, @18:45 (#5210641)
( Last Journal: Thursday November 14, @22:20 )
> It's pro-capitalist though, which is why it is allowed to exist.
And thus we have an excellent illustration of the difference between the
interests of certain capitalists and the usual meaning of capitalism,
the free market. The copyright regime allows certain moneyed interests
to pursue what is economically called "rent-seeking" behavior: the
pursuit of legislation and legal precedent for private benefit, without
regard for its effect on other people's property rights or personal
liberties.
Increasingly, it should be obvious that the "intellectual property"
approach -- the discussion of copyright as a kind of property rather
than as a special privilege granted to advance a particular public good
-- exists solely to make this rent-seeking seem legitimate. If copyright
is "property", then temporal limits upon it seem absurd; after all, we
do not have limits upon the amount of time any other property ownership
remains valid.
However, copyright is not property. It is a privilege granted by
government, which permits a certain party (the copyright holder) to
forbid others from using their own actual and physical property (e.g.
hard disks, CD blanks) for particular purposes, namely copying the
covered works. This privilege may well be legitimate insofar as it
serves the public benefit, by encouraging the production of original
works. Yet perhaps it is not so legitimate, in a period of history when
evidently many artists and creators will create high-quality works
whilst disclaiming any such protection. I'm not sure.
However, either way, this "intellectual property" talk has to stop. It's
just a sneaky way of slipping unfounded assumptions (namely, that
copyright is like property) into the public discourse. Let's call
property "property", and copyright "copyright" -- and rent-seeking
"corruption".
>>
(Je precise que je ne suis pas politiquement d'un ultra liberalisme
debride, mais comme
c'est a la mode et que les institutions mondiales sont
sensees agir au nom du liberalisme, je trouve toujours interessant
de rappeller le point de vue.)
--
Laurent Guerby <address@hidden>
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