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).

  • It is time to realize that the current legal infrastructure has fundamental design flaws and that actors of the free and open culture[1] need to “hijack” copyright laws for publishing free and open content using copyleft.

  • The Lutsu manifesto suggests a fundamental revision of the concept of copyright itself.

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