Pirate Party Leader: Copyright Laws Ridiculous

smitty777 writes "Rick Falkvinge, better known as the leader for Sweden's Pirate Party, recommends doing away with copyright laws since no one is following them anyway. FTA: '...he uses examples from the buttonmakers guild in 1600s France to justify eliminating the five major parts of copyright law today. The first two are cover duplication and public performance, and piracy today has ruined those. The next two cover rights of the creator to get credit and prevent other performances, satires, remixes, etc they don't like. Falkvinge says giving credit is important, but not worthy of a law. Finally, "neighboring rights" are used by the music industry to block duplication, which Falkvinge rejects.'"

Re:He seems to confuse the purpose of copyright

[Relic of the Future]

Damnit, my strike tags on your "the" got edited out! Now I'M going to get nit-picked.

Re:Wrong

[norpy]

That gives incentive for pirates to kill successful artists.

Of course that would create bodyguard jobs!