Z:gnu-www-ja-copyright-versus-community-2000--0e1707-Now it may seem like an obscur/en

Now it may seem like an obscure question to ask &ldquo;What's the purpose of copyright?&rdquo; But the purpose of any activity is the most important thing for deciding when an activity needs to be changed and how. If you forget about the purpose you are sure to get things wrong, so ever since that decision was made, the authors and especially the publishers most recently have been trying to misrepresent it and sweep it under the rug. There has been a campaign for decades to try to spread the idea that was rejected in the US constitution. The idea that copyright exists as an entitlement for copyright owners. And you can that expressed in almost everything they say about it starting and ending with the word &ldquo;pirate&rdquo; which is used to give the impression that making an unauthorised copy is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship and kidnapping or killing the people on board.