Copyright was to prevent unscrupulous printers from making copies of an author’s works without paying them. So basically a sort of market control to encourage writing. Now most copyright is owned by big companies, and the very biggest companies (AI giants) just ignore copyright and have no penalties.
(I know copyright is not the same as patent, I just thought that I’d mention this anyway!)
Which came first? Inventions or Intellectual Property laws? You obviously can’t have the one without the other.
Copyright was to prevent unscrupulous printers from making copies of an author’s works without paying them. So basically a sort of market control to encourage writing. Now most copyright is owned by big companies, and the very biggest companies (AI giants) just ignore copyright and have no penalties.
(I know copyright is not the same as patent, I just thought that I’d mention this anyway!)
Oi, you got a patent for that invention?