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  • From: John Hendrik Weitzmann <jhweitzmann AT mx.uni-saarland.de>
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  • Subject: Re: [CC-Europe] Is it "copyright protects" or "copyright limits use"?
  • Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:24:51 +0200

I always put it this way (in variations):
Copyright sets up an artificial monopoly. Monopolies are usually
something bad, some justified exceptions to that rule exist.


Am 01.08.2014 um 13:25 schrieb Maarten Zeinstra:
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve been thinking about the rhetorics that we’ve been using at Creative
> Commons Netherlands.
>
> I wanted to augment a Dutch text on the public domain starting from the
> idea of “Public Domain is the rule, copyright is the exception” from the
> public domain manifesto. I noticed that I got stuck in trying to explain
> that copyright protects its creators. Protects has such a positive
> connotation that I find it difficult to explain why public domain has so
> many merits. Instead of saying ‘copyright protects’ I thought about
> changing the explanation of copyright to ‘copyright limits use’.
>
> I was wondering if you have thoughts about this kind of rhetorics. Do
> you in your language/country/work say that copyright protects creators
> or that it limits use? Why did you adopt one form over the other and
> what kind of reactions did you get from using that kind of rhetorics?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maarten Zeinstra
>
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