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Korea Using Copyright Law To Crack Down On Protests It Doesn't Like?
from the misuse-of-copyright-law dept
Copyright law, by its nature, is an abuse of free speech. Many, of course, consider it to be a reasonable restriction on free speech -- but any time you open that door, you open up the possibility that copyright will be abused in a way to prevent other types of free speech. For example, Techdirt reader cram writes in to point out that Korean officials have arrested the CEO of a video streaming website, charging him with copyright infringement, noting that the site encouraged people to upload copyrighted works by giving uploaders a share of money earned. However, many are suggesting that copyright infringement charges have little to do with the real reason behind the arrest -- as the guy arrested also runs another site that has helped publicize videos protesting Korean policies on importing US beef. Well, no matter what they think of imports on US beef, now they know what happens when they import US-mandated copyright law.
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IP and political dissent
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Korea's unique problem
The current issue here is the inverse; irresponsible use of free speech. Many web sites and a couple of TV stations have broadcast knowingly absolute lies about the US beef issue. In a wired society like Korea this information or disinformation spread so fast that it became fact. This has led to huge street protests and brought the 4 month old Government close to collapse and given energy to political groups that are now preaching sedition. The Government is trying to contain a situation that if allowed to continue could result in anarchy.
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Re: Korea's unique problem
2) ????
3) Anarchy!
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Copyright is an "abuse" of free speech?
There is the possibility of overlap between free speech rights and copyright protections, but the concept of fair use has been there pretty much from the beginning to address that issue.
Now, some have abused copyright law in ways that negatively impact free speech, but that is about individual efforts, not any inherent flaw in the concept of copyright. Plenty of people also abuse free speech. Or do you consider defamation laws an "abuse" of free speech also?
HM
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Copyright law, by its nature, is a restriction of free speech. Some consider it to be an abuse on free speech --
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Copyright an "abuse" of free speech ??
There's a reason copyright laws were created, and it wasn't to give corporations the power to crush free speech. It was to prevent authors of works from watching publishers take their creative works without ever flowing the profits back to the creator.
Let's not forget that corporations, governments or even individuals regularly abuse laws if doing so will benefit them. Just because copyright was used as an excuse for oppression in this case doesn't mean copyright is therefore evil. You needn't look much farther than our own US administration to see that.
To follow through on your logic, we ought to abandon all laws because they might (or have been) abused.
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now hang on
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