Free licenses are delaying the advent of bright times without the tyranny of copyright?
Sometimes they ask about the reasons for my burning hatred for licenses for software, music, lyrics and other intangible values. I am offered to distribute my own works on “free” licenses such as Creative Commons or in general the GPL.
To me, the very principle of all these licenses seems unnatural. They proceed from the fact that by default information is “not free”, and in order to make it “free,” special efforts must be made.
Modern activists of the “free licenses” are delaying the advent of bright times with their problems. They slavishly adapt to the existing perverted orders instead of helping them to die off naturally - as happened, for example, with slavery, the power of the Catholic Church or the Soviet Union. ')
Rostislav Chebykin ( source ).
Interesting theses. I have some thoughts on this.
In my opinion, it’s hard to imagine big opponents of copywriting than Richard Stallman and Laournes Lessig . Stallman is generally for the abolition of copyright, his license is only a temporary solution, and the principle that information is protected by default was invented more than 100 years ago by the authors of the Berne Convention, which has to be taken into account.
It is very important that these people are already struggling with radical copyright and achieve results that can be used now (as opposed to "pirates" and supporters of the complete abolition of copyright). If you sit and do nothing, then the copyright will not only not soften, but toughened up. Now all works distributed under Stollman licenses and 40% of all CC works are available for copying, editing, commercial use and taking as a basis. Isn't that better than nothing at all? By the way, they give more rights to ordinary users than the future will provide for copyright reform according to the programs of the Pirate Parties (let me remind you that they are in favor of non-commercial literal copying, and not at all for the abolition of copyright).
Free licenses create competition for the copyist approach , which is a good (and possibly the only) method of struggle. Lessig believes that by distributing works under Creative Commons licenses, the authors weaken the position of copywriters and fight for a better future for our children.