{"id":3718,"date":"2017-01-10T05:52:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2021-08-03T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T12:13:00","slug":"modern-copyright-was-built-fundamental-assumption-internet-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/modern-copyright-was-built-fundamental-assumption-internet-reversed\/","title":{"rendered":"The entire modern copyright was built on one fundamental assumption that the Internet has reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"

When copyright was reinstated in 1710, the justification was that of publishing being many orders of magnitude more expensive than authoring, and so without it, nothing would get published. But the Internet has reversed this assumption completely: publishing is now many orders of magnitude cheaper than writing the piece you want to publish.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The copyright monopoly, as we know, was created<\/a> on May 4, 1557, when Queen Mary I introduced a complete censorship of dissenting political opinions and prevented them from being printed (and thus the \u201cright to copy\u201d was born as a privilege within a guild, by banning all wrongthinkers of the time from expressing ideas). This stands in contrast to France\u2019s attempt at banning<\/a> the printing press entirely by penalty of death in at least two aspects: One, England\u2019s suppression was successful, and two, the suppression has survived (albeit mutating) to present day.<\/p>\n

After the Glorious Revolution<\/a> of 1688, which is a point of pride in that no blood was shed (at least none that mattered to the history writers), people were really really really<\/em> tired of the censorship, and wanted to end it promptly. Thus, the monopoly that was the foundation of copyright \u2013 the exclusive right to the London Company of Stationers to print anything in the country, in exchange for letting it pass by the Crown\u2019s censors first \u2013 the monopoly of copyright was not renewed<\/em> as the law required, and lapsed in 1695.<\/p>\n

Yes, copyright ceased to exist in 1695, after having been in effect since 1557.<\/p>\n

The post-revolution British parliament would have none of it.<\/p>\n

The formerly very profitable print shops, having operated under a repressive monopoly upholding political censorship, though \u2014 they would petition Parliament again, and again, and again, to reinstate their lucrative monopoly, but to no end. Parliament just wouldn\u2019t introduce something like it again. What\u2019s really interesting here isn\u2019t the fact that the printers gathered their families on the steps of Parliament to weep for bread to their children, but the arguments they used, and what didn\u2019t<\/em> happen:<\/p>\n

First, they argued that nothing would get printed if they didn\u2019t get their monopoly back, as they couldn\u2019t make a profit. The extremely noteworthy part of the argument is that they didn\u2019t argue nothing would get created<\/em> \u2013 but that nothing would get printed<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second, the authors<\/em> had no interest whatsoever in this construct. The printers and publishers were the ones arguing for the monopoly, claiming to speak on behalf of<\/em> authors, and presented the idea that authors should \u201cown\u201d their works and have such \u201cownership\u201d transferrable by contract \u2014 knowing full well authors would have no choice but to sign their rights away to the previous vested interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The British Parliament bought this line of reasoning, unfortunately, sending us down 300 years (and counting) of suppression of speech by those who have most to profit from suppressing it. This date \u2013 the reinstatement<\/em> of copyright on April 10, 1710 \u2013 this is what the copyright industry deceptively calls \u201cthe birth of modern copyright\u201d, in an attempt to conceal or dissociate from copyright\u2019s origin as political censorship.<\/p>\n

The real meat here lies in understanding that the entire underlying assumption, and justification of this construct, was that publishing was far more expensive than writing<\/em>. Setting up a print shop required considerable investment and labor in order to distribute works, whereas writing just required pen, paper, and time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFar from viewing copying as theft, authors [in 1700] generally regarded it as flattery. The bulk of creative work has always depended, then and now, on a diversity of funding sources: commissions, teaching jobs, grants or stipends, patronage, etc. The introduction of copyright did not change this situation. What it did was allow a particular business model \u2014 mass pressings with centralized distribution \u2014 to make a few lucky works available to a wider audience, at considerable profit to the distributors.\u201d \u2014 Copyright historian Karl Fogel<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Internet has completely reversed this assumption. Thinking in terms of time required, the effort required to publish is now approximately the equivalent effort of writing a few words \u2013 here in WordPress, it involves moving the mouse to the upper right corner, placing the cursor over \u201cPublish\u201d, and pressing the left mouse button. Thus, we can observe the following:<\/p>\n

Where the reintroduction of copyright \u2013 \u201cmodern\u201d copyright \u2013 was justified by publishing being several orders of magnitude more expensive than authoring, the Internet has made publishing several orders of magnitude cheaper<\/em> than authoring, completely reversing the original premise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, there will be no shortage of people who profit from an artificial limitation, once it is in place. You could easily argue today that X and Y must not change, because A and B profit from the status quo \u2014 and so, the copyright industry readily claims that so and so many thousand jobs are upheld (\u201ccreated\u201d) by this artificial and harmful limit. But really, what kind of an argument is that? Who has the right to prevent the passage of time because they benefit from a lack of change? This is effectively the copyright industry\u2019s single argument today.<\/p>\n

And that industry will let nothing stand in its way \u2013 in particular not civil liberties such as privacy. They have consistently tried to erode basic freedoms under the guise of preserving the status quo, when what they\u2019re doing is denying our children the liberties that our parents had, such as the ability to send an anonymous letter to somebody.<\/p>\n

Further reading: The surprising history of copyright, and the promise of a post-copyright world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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