[LINK] People love to share: UK Pirate Party official

[Kim Holburn]

An interesting article on ideas to reform copyright.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/30827

> 	• That private, personal use, copying, and distribution, for love  
> not commercial gain, should not be restricted
> 	• That artists still need an opportunity to earn a reward, and that  
> commercial use where someone is directly profiting from creative  
> work, should require agreement/remittance back to the artist in some  
> way – leading to the slogan “Where money is made, artists must be  
> paid”

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> 	• Radically simplifying copyright law
> 	• Empowering content creators (rather than intermediaries and  
> distributors)
> 	• Empowering readers, listeners and viewers (who, after all, are  
> supposed to be part of the beneficiaries of copyright law)
> 	• Disintermediating copyright away from the middlemen who seem to  
> control the law today

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