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The socio‐economic position of contemporarry art music in Europe

The absurdity of copyright

Pages 145-150 | Published online: 03 Jun 2008
 

Abstract

Main theses defended in this paper are:

  1. Information cannot be possessed. It is not property, since it cannot be taken away. It is neither object nor energy, but essentially form.

  2. Every form of treating information as a product is intrinsically contradictory to its very nature.

  3. Copyright protection is not only based on an epistemological lie, it is also immoral towards society.

  4. Neither authors nor inventors need protection, since the use of their work does not constitute an‐attack, but rather an honour.

  5. The further development of new technologies will make the idea of copyright completely anachronistic and obsolete. Copyright protection will reveal itself to be just inefficient.

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