An Opinion On A Constructive Proposal For Copyright Reform

    

                             

This article aims to explain the opinion about the ideas of Chapter 2 of The Case for Copyright Reform from 2 members of "The Pirates King".

• Moral Rights Unchanged

In my opinion, it seems obvious, we can't claim that we have written or created somthing if it is not the case.

• Free Non-Commercial Sharing

"copyright has evolved to a position where it imposes serious restrictions on what ordinary citizens can do in their every-day lives. (..)We want to restore copyright to its origins, and make absolutely clear that it only regulates copying for commercial purposes."

This seems to be a good idea to follow in order to keep people living in art field, earning their life with their creation imagination. 

That's true copyright has evolved to a position where it imposes serious restrictions with sharing files. For instance in the case of movies and series, downloading and streaming are used although there are some fee if the personn have downloaded a huge number of movies or others.

• 20 Years Of Commercial Monopoly

The commercial exclusivity of 20 years seems for me a bit to short. 

• Registration After 5 Years

I totally agree on the fact that the copyright protection should be given automatically to all the new published works. And the writer have to have the right to continue to exercise his commercial exclusivity.

• Free Sampling

"Today’s ever more restrictive copyright legislation and practice is a major obstacle to musicians, film makers, and other artists who want to create new works by reusing parts of existing works."

That is why this have to done one each field after an other one. Each art has some different limitations and  patents of different time.

• A Ban on DRM

Acording to me, it should be regulated by the intension, if people are not intending to get profit of it then it shall not bother them. It sounds like a basic human right, lets say music. It would be out of place to forbid me to share music to my friends only because i did not ask permission from author?

To sum it all up, the ideas itself are great. They are rightful and don’t work against ordinary people. Of course, it will take plenty of time to make these rules work, there will be some adjustments made i believe.