A just salary for authors and distributors

• The current system of copyright laws was born with the Licensing of the Press Act in 1662 and the Statute of Anne in 1710 (see History of copyright).

• This system relies on the axiom that published content becomes the private property of its author and may be used only with their permission.

• This axiom causes some negative side effects. See Issues with the current copyright system.

• The free and open culture[1] avoids these side effects by using copyleft to “grant certain freedoms” rather than “reserving all rights” when publishing content.

• The Lutsu manifesto suggests as a next step a fundamental review of our approach to intellectual property.

• The Lutsu manifesto
• The current copyright system
• There are two aspects of copyright
• Issues with the current copyright system
• How it will start
• Intellectual property is an illusion
• About intellectual work
• Benefits of the Lutsu idea
• Common knowledge
• Ethical aspects

Footnotes

[1]

For example the Creative Commons, the Wikipedia Foundation or the Open Knowledge Foundation. The work of these movements is important because it shows the feasibility of alternative systems.