FT om EU:s föreslagna upphovsrättsförlängning

Anyone acquainted with human creativity knows that most artistic work worth having springs not from the expectation of lengthy royalty streams but from the intrinsic motivation to create. Artistic production is simply something humans do: it pervades history, copyright protection or not. (...)

(...) Copyright extension is, in the main, just the well-known strategy of powerful companies: profit-grabbing through lobbying for state protection. That is bad enough. Worse is the chilling effect it can have on creativity: the industry is already on a legal crusade against the sampling of copyrighted material into new original work. This is like the Grimm brothers’ descendants suing Disney for using their fairy tales.

The cultural industries are over-protected. If cultural works were less greedily hoarded, consumers would enjoy more variety – and artists would create more freely.

Jösses, det var ord och inga visor från marknadens röst – Financial Times.

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