by Bionic Mosquito
Editor’s note: We do not favor the utter repeal of copyright law. In many cases copyright laws secure to writers the just proceeds of their work. However, we should strongly consider weakening those laws by reducing the period of copyright and other means — though not for the reasons proposed by the author of this article. Think for a moment at who gains the most from our current copyright laws: Hollywood, music industry and textbook publishers. Are Hollywood the music industry and textbook publishers our enemies or our friends? I think you know the answer to that. Though occasionally they are our friends, overall these industries seem to have a an outright vendetta against our People, our Customs, our Culture and our Values.
Anything that weakens these industries reduces the funds they have available to use to hurt our Folk in various ways. Once we have a state of our own that actually represents OUR interests and a media that supports our People, Culture, Customs and Values, we can always strengthen these laws again if it is needed.
But until then, we should weaken our enemies in any way possible — and a key method of weakening the media complex is to weaken copyright law as that will deprive them of the money — our money that we send them — that they then use against US.
The following article gives a different set of reasoning. A politically correct set of reasoning. Keep in mind we are dealing with a dishonest enemy and a thoroughly deceived public. We do not owe our enemy honor or honesty. We can use justifications such as those in this article to advance an agenda that hurts our enemies. This is not King Arthur’s court. The objective is victory.
This subject was recently discussed at The Daily Bell, and thanks to feedbacker Abu Aaardvark for providing the first link to the reference material.
Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian [Eckhard Höffner] argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country’s industrial might.
In the early part of the 19th century Germany was still very much an agriculturally based and rural society, while England was well on its way to complete industrialization.
Höffner has researched that early heyday of printed material in Germany and reached a surprising conclusion – unlike neighboring England and France, Germany experienced an unparalleled explosion of knowledge in the 19th century.
German authors during this period wrote ceaselessly. Around 14,000 new publications appeared in a single year in 1843. Measured against population numbers at the time, this reaches nearly today’s level. And although novels were published as well, the majority of the works were academic papers.
Much of what was published in Germany during this time was technical, for example:
Sigismund Hermbstädt…a chemistry and pharmacy professor in Berlin, who has long since disappeared into the oblivion of history, earned more royalties for his “Principles of Leather Tanning” published in 1806 than British author Mary Shelley did for her horror novel “Frankenstein,” which is still famous today.In contrast to the situation in Germany, the volume of works published in England was rather miniscule:
Indeed, only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time – 10 times fewer than in Germany – and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900.
England, which had almost a one century head start in industrialization, and a centuries-long advantage in international trade, was unable to maintain it superior industrial position as compared to Germany.
Please see the full article here.