re: #58 EmmmieG

The patent laws and copyright laws were written to allow writers, artists, and inventors the right to make money off of their own efforts and ideas, and are a terrific idea. The original inventors, and perhaps their spouses, should be able to profit from their ideas.

How have we gotten from that to websites being shut down at the suggestion that a third party might have posted an illegal link, video, or song?

I’m still trying to figure out how Michael Jackson and Sony came to own the rights to Paul McCartney’s songs while McCartney is still alive. No, don’t explain it, I just find it wrong.

Because McCartney profited by selling the rights to the songs. Which are transferable.