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EU copyright law: Is the Pirate Party's MEP in FAVOUR of it?

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Paris Hilton

Nice photoshopping on Paris' thumb...

But really, it's always going to be difficult to keep everybody happy when it comes to copyright. In fact, when it comes to any "right". Since it can only be defined in the context of what you exclude others from having (ie access to the things you own), and in the digital domain that becomes a hazy thing, there will always be trouble about it.

Maybe we should just recognize that any digital creation will never be completely controlled and protected and just stop spending the effort and money trying to achieve that. Just realize that your work will be copied, sampled and mashed together and at most, try using some form of watermarking to mark it enough so that you can track its usage and ask for some attribution and hopefully some money too.

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