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+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Freedom or Copyright?
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Freedom&mdash;or Copyright?</h2>
<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
+<div class="infobox">
<p><em>This essay addresses how the principles of software freedom
apply in some cases to other works of authorship and art. It's
included here since it involves the application of the ideas of free
software.</em></p>
+</div>
<hr class="thin" />
<p>
@@ -113,7 +122,7 @@ The organizations that profit most from copyright legally exercise it
in the name of the authors (most of whom gain little). They would
have you believe that copyright is a natural right of authors, and
that we the public must suffer it no matter how painful it is. They
-call sharing &ldquo;piracy&rdquo;, equating helping your neighbor with
+call sharing &ldquo;piracy,&rdquo; equating helping your neighbor with
attacking a ship.</p>
<p>
@@ -130,17 +139,17 @@ dissatisfied with that amount and called the experiment a failure, but it looks
like a success to me.) Radiohead made millions in 2007 by inviting
fans to copy an album and pay what they wished, while it was also
shared on peer-to-peer networks. In
-2008, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/05/nine-inch-nails-made.html">
+2008, <a href="https://boingboing.net/2008/03/05/nine-inch-nails-made.html">
Nine Inch Nails released an album with permission to share copies</a>
and made $750,000 in a few days.</p>
<p>
The possibility of success without oppression is not limited to
bestsellers. Many artists of various levels of fame now make an
-adequate living through <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091119/1634117011.shtml">voluntary
+adequate living through <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2010/01/25/future-music-business-models-those-who-are-already-there/">voluntary
support</a>: donations and merchandise purchases of their fans.
Kevin Kelly estimates the artist need only find around
-<a href="http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php">
+<a href="https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/">
1,000 true fans</a>.
</p>
@@ -149,7 +158,7 @@ When computer networks provide an easy anonymous method for sending
someone a small amount of money, without a credit card, it will be
easy to set up a much better system to support the arts. When you
view a work, there will be a button you can press saying, &ldquo;Click
-here to send the artist one dollar&rdquo;. Wouldn't you press it, at
+here to send the artist one dollar.&rdquo; Wouldn't you press it, at
least once a week?</p>
<p>
@@ -171,7 +180,7 @@ the arts.</p>
<p>
The <a
-href="http://stallman.org/mecenat/global-patronage.html">Global
+href="https://stallman.org/mecenat/global-patronage.html">Global
Patronage</a> proposal combines aspects of those two systems,
incorporating mandatory payments with voluntary allocation among
artists.</p>
@@ -188,10 +197,11 @@ DRM. But until we win this battle, you must protect yourself: don't
buy any products with DRM unless you personally have the means to
break the DRM. Never use a product designed to attack your freedom
unless you can nullify the attack.</p>
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+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to <a
@@ -209,16 +219,33 @@ href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
&lt;web-translators@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a> for
-information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p>
+information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p>
</div>
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2008, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2020 Richard M. Stallman</p>
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2008, 2010, 2022 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -228,10 +255,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2020/10/06 08:25:53 $
+$Date: 2022/04/12 11:15:30 $
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</p>
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