Re: EASTERBROOK's "quick look" on the GPL and Wallace's claim

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> LOL.
>
> backinfullforce commented (quoting smarty EASTERBROOK):
>
> ------
> "Copyright law gives authors *a right* to charge more, so that they can 
> recover their fixed costs ( and thus promote innovation ), but they do 
> *not require* authors to charge more. You hear that, Williams? You are 
> not required to charge more once a piece of your intellectual property 
> exists.
> ------
>
> And so it is perfectly okay for copyleft ("free as in freedom") to
> suppress *a right* given by copyright law

Since when does copyright law secure a right to create and
redistribute derivative works without asking the original author?  In
fact, this is pretty much what copyright law intends to prohibit.

> and *require* to charge zero to cover costs of creating a piece of
> intellectual property to exist.
>
> Impeccable logic.

Glass house.

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