Sunday, February 25, 2018
Copyright is the hard core of our freedom
In this 3,297-word article, I summarize the main idea of the book Freedom of
Expression and Copyright, The Foundations of All liberties I have published in two volumes.
·
First my research, analysis, and discussion of documents ranging from 1100 to 2016 in
a Kindle Book (492 pages, 154,663 words, ASIN: B06XNJZ4W6) available in the
Kindle Stores of all Amazon sites.
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Second all the documents from 1100 to
2016 considering essentially England/United Kingdom, and then the USA.(manuscript
of 550 pages, 442,835 words) available (without the
documents the research is not understandable) in free open access
at https://www.academia.edu/31829015/Freedom_of_Expression_and_Copyright_The_Foundations_of_All_Liberties.
This original
article on Medium.com considers the situation at the global level and the confrontation of the two basic systems of first
copyright in most of the world and second authors’ rights in France and a few
other countries.
The stake is
the protection of the moral rights of authors. The French-carried system makes
them central whereas the American system covers their protection with Fair Use
and Common Law.
Most European
countries, including Russia, have chosen a compromise with the basic system of
copyright to which they have added some articles to define and protect moral
rights.
A
confrontation is bound to happen in the world but since Europe refuses (under
the influence of the French) to negotiate with the main Copyright supporter
(the USA) in the name of Cultural Exception and Cultural Diversity, the only arena where it will take place is the global
market of Intellectual Property and that will bring the French-carried system
to the brink of collapse sooner or later particularly with authors and other
artists and creators concerned by copyright who will shift their works to a
country working with copyright, particularly the USA.
And they
won’t even need to emigrate to the USA because intellectual property can
circulate from the creator to the “publisher” virtually and the contract is
international. Too bad for Trump. But the French – and the Europeans – may have
to cry one day though. Note the British
have a totally different copyright law.
Dr. Jacques
COULARDEAU
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:40 PM 
