Z:gnu-www-ja-words-to-avoid--1f2365-To speak of =26ldquo;compensatio/en

To speak of &ldquo;compensation for authors&rdquo; in connection with copyright carries the assumptions that (1) copyright exists for the sake of authors and (2) whenever we read something, we take on a debt to the author which we must then repay. The first assumption is simply false, and the second is outrageous.