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NotPhil · 4904 days ago · link · · parent · post: Anthony Accardo: Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?
Publishers keep saying that they're only looking out for the interests of authors, composers, directors, and performers whenever they push for copyright extensions and more draconian copyright enforcement. But, for some reason, they never talk about how little they pay the overwhelming majority of writers and performers when they take the rights to publish their work from them, nor do they mention how much previously published work is currently unpublished because they see no profit in maintaining publication, but won't give publication rights back to the authors or performers because that would represent a loss of assets.
And, while the author is complaining about semantics, I should point out that the practice he's referring to is called bootlegging, not piracy, and, despite what he says, censorship has nothing to do with whether or not a government body is suppressing speech, it only refers to the suppression of speech.