I have long been thinking about the theme of copyright in the context of the issue of property rights and its impact on culture. My attitude to private property is extremely negative - the right of ownership, as the root of the issue, suppresses the human will to work capacity in principle. You can come up with new and new supporting functions to the human form of activity based on the right of ownership, but the essence is this: at the moment, ownership is the main deterrent to the development of human civilization, as it was once a factor in some way conducive. It is possible to curb solar energy, to invent an efficient engine, but if this activity is based on the desire to gain profit in a purely mercantile vein, with the possibility of selling and reselling, these attempts will always be fruitless. On the opposite edge of the super-engine there will always be a factory that destroys all around the production of conventional lithium batteries. And if there are no batteries, then the elements for them and so on. Capitalism does not set itself the goal of making the whole world happy. The goal of capitalism, based on patent and copyright, with minimum costs to make a profit for the sake of profit, everything is simple enough. And in some magical way, the receipt of benefits should in theory be transformed into love, friendship, responsibility. It does not transform. If today the costs are the salary, education, health, cultural life of the hired worker, tomorrow, when robots replace a person in the main branches of production, it will be a question of "inefficient" continents.
The author of the book, once the founder of the pirate party of Sweden, thinks, it seems to me somewhat calmer than I do. He sees the solution to the issue of reforming copyright, rather than abandoning it completely. The problem of Engstrom, from my point of view, in trying to keep society in its current state. But the copyright system is just one of the parties, deciding exclusively which fundamentally rules of interaction between people can not be changed. Engstrom wants, as one of the measures, to include a reduction in the period of profit from copyright, without alienating it from the owner, for a period of 20 years from today's 70 in Sweden, as I understand it. In his reasoning, he is guided by those conclusions that allow him to see the benefit for musicians and other creative personalities from the lowering of this time threshold, allows to obtain universal cultural benefit. The issue of alienating commercial rights from the so-called " "Orphan works", the right holders for which it is difficult to establish. This is all wonderful and useful for the society, as Engstrom cites a lot of figures and facts that show that creative activity over the last ten years (the book was written in 2012) has not decreased the power of peer-to-peer networks and "piracy", but has increased and is now at the maximum Indicators in its entire history. At the same time the musicians themselves began to earn their living no less, and more, which to a large extent makes the networks of distribution layers
The author of the book, once the founder of the pirate party of Sweden, thinks, it seems to me somewhat calmer than I do. He sees the solution to the issue of reforming copyright, rather than abandoning it completely. The problem of Engstrom, from my point of view, in trying to keep society in its current state. But the copyright system is just one of the parties, deciding exclusively which fundamentally rules of interaction between people can not be changed. Engstrom wants, as one of the measures, to include a reduction in the period of profit from copyright, without alienating it from the owner, for a period of 20 years from today's 70 in Sweden, as I understand it. In his reasoning, he is guided by those conclusions that allow him to see the benefit for musicians and other creative personalities from the lowering of this time threshold, allows to obtain universal cultural benefit. The issue of alienating commercial rights from the so-called " "Orphan works", the right holders for which it is difficult to establish. This is all wonderful and useful for the society, as Engstrom cites a lot of figures and facts that show that creative activity over the last ten years (the book was written in 2012) has not decreased the power of peer-to-peer networks and "piracy", but has increased and is now at the maximum Indicators in its entire history. At the same time the musicians themselves began to earn their living no less, and more, which to a large extent makes the networks of distribution layers
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