Copyright

Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft

Writers, composers, designers and other
content creators need to fight back.

by Mark Helprin

. . . Their work is peculiarly vulnerable in that it is easy to appropriate....

Were this vulnerability unaddressed, the producers of intellectual property would be put out of business unless they were independently wealthy or worked either as amateurs or drew salaries at the pleasure of, and beholden to, boards, committees and overseers of every type. Always at risk, the independent voice, the guarantor of political freedom and personal dignity, would be dangerously depressed along with the arts that sustain civilization. Amateurs alone are insufficient -- unless one believes that the work of Herman Melville, Thomas Eakins and Aaron Copeland does not merit full-time employment.

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