Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2020
Copyright must support the human quest for progress, in which creativity plays an essential part. In developing countries, where few besides the elite can afford to create, copyright’s purpose should be to help artwork from all corners of the globe promote freedom, equality, and human rights; to achieve this, copyright must be minimized.2 In middle-income countries, where more individuals have the opportunity to make a living and to draw fulfillment from creating, moderate copyright can play a larger role in assisting artists to construct a sense of national identity and inclusiveness; by fostering cultural creation, copyright also fosters a collective historical and romantic sense of the common good. Finally, in developed countries, a vast majority of the population has the luxury to create, yet copyright encourages the passive overconsumption of art; if individuals are to resist the sclerotic hardening of their character by creating art, copyright’s power must be diminished.
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