We’ve talked in the past about how the Russian Authors’ Society has made bands pay up to play their own songs, and now apparently it’s going after some Russian WWII veterans for getting together and singing old war songs. Patriotism and nostalgia, apparently, aren’t free. We’ve discussed this before, of course. The value in artistic works is often in the shared culture around them — but thanks to copyright, we’re putting up a big tollbooth on any attempt to further share those experiences. It’s a huge hindrance on actually spreading culture and seems to go against the very purpose of copyright law.
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