Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com writes:
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 09:38 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com writes:
In continental Europe, things are different again, since there is a much stronger adherence to moral rights, which have little to do with the economics.
By that account, then, it seems that in the EU also it is not the goal of copyright to redistribute money.
Not really: [excerpt from EC directive or law]
But from what principle does this law argue? I'm looking for the equivalent of the USA's constitutional power given to the governmennt to create copyright monopolies.
Even in the exceprt you give, it seems the argument is made from the motivation to have the artist continue their work as though that in itself were the benefit being sought.