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.

• The Lutsu manifesto
• The current copyright system
• There are two aspects of copyright
• The copyright system has serious design flaws
• Alternatives to copyright
• Intellectual property is an illusion
• About intellectual work
• Benefits of the Lutsu idea
• Common knowledge
• Ethical aspects

Footnotes

[1]

For example by 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.