A furious denunciation of copyright infringement in all its forms. I find it fascinating, if somehow at an angle to the world in which I live as a creator-for-profit of copyrighted material. But the thing which I think requires much, much closer examination is the idea that control over an original work is a ‘fundamental’ right. It may be, or it may not be, and the reasons why one might accept or reject that claim are at the heart of creativity and even human action in general.
(My personal perception: it’s a right derived from other aspects of human reality which really are fundamental. I’m not sure if that makes it technically a contingent right or something else. Anyone?)
