Copyright has none of these features. It doesn't make the economy less dangerous, the lack of it makes it more progressive because of the lack of restriction. Nobody will come to harm because someone decided to ignore limitations.
So you say. As a former journalist, whose work was copied or referred to in Forbes Magazine, (I was never able to locate the reference, so I can't comment whether it was "fair use" or plagiarism, though I always assumed the latter) I can assure you that people are hurt when copyright laws are broken. People who create work are entitled to be paid for its use, and the use without a reasonable payment constitutes theft, just as if the user had reached into the author's pockets and withdrawn the money. You obviously don't seem to grasp this concept, which likely makes you as guilty as the thief.
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So you say. As a former journalist, whose work was copied or referred to in Forbes Magazine, (I was never able to locate the reference, so I can't comment whether it was "fair use" or plagiarism, though I always assumed the latter) I can assure you that people are hurt when copyright laws are broken. People who create work are entitled to be paid for its use, and the use without a reasonable payment constitutes theft, just as if the user had reached into the author's pockets and withdrawn the money. You obviously don't seem to grasp this concept, which likely makes you as guilty as the thief.
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