Z:gnu-www-ja-reevaluating-copyright--7ae4bd-The claim is begging the quest/en

The claim is begging the question because the idea of &ldquo;loss&rdquo; is based on the assumption that the publisher &ldquo;should have&rdquo; got paid. That is based on the assumption that copyright exists and prohibits individual copying. But that is just the issue at hand: what should copyright cover? If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a &ldquo;loss&rdquo; when it is not.