On 13/08/2014 08:50, Tim w wrote:
....
Not so much that, more that copyright law is all cock. It's law to
protect business interest and profit at the expense of consumers and
ordinary people. Unsuprising that it makes no sense in ordinary human
and moral terms.

It exists to protect ordinary people, like artists and writers, who
would have no right to earn money from their efforts if they did not
have copyright in their works.

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Colin Bignell