Views on Copyright

 and copyright libertarians, and explain your answers. (It would probably be helpful to define those terms very specifically.)

When it comes to the copyright world, there are many different opinions on how it should be regulated and distributed. Since it's become such an easy thing to disobey copyright laws, much more opinions are forming on how it should be regulated. It is a difficult task, and there are also a greater amount of different views on how it should be monitored. For instance, an artist will probably have different opinions and reasoning than will someone that sits at home and downloads music and games illegally all the time.

 A copyright communist would be someone who is completely open to sharing materials. This could be a website such as the pirate bay or creative commons, where everyone can upload their files and also download whatever files they want. They feel that everyone should be able to share the files that they are distributing on their websites.

Lessig would definitely be a copyright liberal in this situation. He is looking for innovating new ideas to share with the world about how to change the copyright laws and rules. Copyright liberals are looking to the future to make progression and reformation of the copyright and sharing world.

Copyright conservatives would be set on the way things are now, since they have stayed pretty traditional. Change is not something they see necessary. They want to keep the laws and rules regulated in the same way they are, and preserving existing conditions is their most important goal. I think a lot of music artists are copyright conservatives. This is because they benefit from people purchasing their work, and if people are pirating it or stealing it, they don't make the money they intended. Their careers depend on who buys their music. Fundamentalists also have a very similar mindset, so I would use the same people as an example.

Copyright libertarians would believe that the government shouldn't have anything to do with how their work is distributed. It should be about how the individual wants their work shared. Someone that comes to mind would be Macklemore, the Seattle rapper. A few months back he was talking about how if you can't afford his music to pirate it and share it with your friends. Not many artists would promote that.