The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.
I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.
Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
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