Z:gnu-www-ja-misinterpreting-copyright--7125c4-The copyright system works by/en

The copyright system works by providing privileges and thus benefits to publishers and authors; but it does not do this for their sake. Rather, it does this to modify their behavior: to provide an incentive for authors to write more and publish more. In effect, the government spends the public's natural rights, on the public's behalf, as part of a deal to bring the public more published works. Legal scholars call this concept the &ldquo;copyright bargain.&rdquo; It is like a government purchase of a highway or an airplane using taxpayers' money, except that the government spends our freedom instead of our money.