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Originally Posted by dzagama
Who's defending copyright law? The issue that I'm arguing for is very simple: Artists should be compensated for digital content.
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Every example of copyright law I gave is an instance where someone thinks they should be compensated but generally aren't. Isn't singing happy birthday stealing performance rights the same way downloading a mp3 is stealing revenue? If not, what's the difference? Some artist wrote happy birthday and someone (AOL) owns the right to it. Why shouldn't they be compensated the same way?
What drives me nuts about this is people want to oversimplify a complicated issue.