Re: CLUEBAT: copyrights, infringement, violations, and legality
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:37:31PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> I think I can give a useful example here: the ancient Greeks and
> Romans also kept slaves. Doing so was acceptable according to
> their culture and laws, but we still think it was wrong.
> The difference is precisely that we consider freedom to be a
> natural right, while copyright is not.
So, a "natural right" is whatever is considered a right according to
whatever happen to be the morals of the dominant society of the age,
whereas the other type of right is whatever is considered a right
(or convenient, or profitable...) according to the laws of the dominant
society of the age? ;)
Cheers,
Nick
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