Noah Roberts wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2005 10:53 AM, Edward Barrow <edward@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>>Worth googling for Kant
>>on copyright, by the way).
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> All that did was turn up a bunch of copyrighted stuff about Kant.
> More direct links might be more helpful.
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>
oh dear. Last time I tried it I got a load of good links, but
"copyright" is always a difficult word to search on.
Anyway, the essay concerned is "On the injustice of counterfeiting
books" and it's an argument, not all of which I agree with, in favour of
what is known as the natural theory of copyright, prevalent in Europe
and anathema to US constitutionalists. Here's a key quote:
"The author and the owner of the copy may both say of it with equal
right:
it is my book! but in a different sense. The first takes the book as a
writing or a speech; the second as the mute instrument merely of the
delivering of the speech to him or to the public, i. e. as a copy. This
right of the author's, however, is no right in the thing, namely, the copy
(for the owner may burn it before the author's face), but an innate right
in his own person, namely, to hinder another from reading it to the public
without his consent, which consent can by no means be presumed, because
he has already given it exclusively to another"
this from the full text at
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/kant_counterfeiting.htm
Of course, as a professional author himself, Kant was certainly not a
disinterested observer....
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