Copywrong

[chard]

From The Public Domain, a short essay by Lawrence Lessig:
The private domain will swallow the public domain. And the cultivation of culture and creativity will then be dictated by those who claim to own it.

Backed by force of arms, no doubt. Of course, the USA only started respecting copyrights itself when it became profitable to do so, and

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[p4user]

So the concern is that powerful corporations end up controlling freedom of expression? There's a general problem, I think, which is that powerful corporations end up with undue influence over lawmaking and general government activity to the detriment of the general populace.

When people express disquiet over copyright infringement, they may mostly be concerned that individual artists will be denied a living by it. It would be nice to think of an explicit model in which that's not a problem.