'yes, the world does. Copyright is an artificial construct whose moral basis exists solely as a calculated decision to try to increase production, a bargain between the public - of which I am one - and the creators - misleadingly called "the world" - about creating and providing works. Now, under the current rules, I and the rest of the public have chosen not to impose explicit mandatory terms of access, but we have in other cases like bandwidth and orphan works, so let's not pretend that we can't do it for you too. You may welsh on the spirit of our agreement while satisfying the letter of our law, and we may choose to overlook it because it's not serious enough a problem to invoke the grim majesty of the legal meatgrinders or for other reasons, but that doesn't eliminate the fact that there is welshing going on here. And you certainly do not get to lecture me about it!"
'yes, the world does. Copyright is an artificial construct whose moral basis exists solely as a calculated decision to try to increase production, a bargain between the public - of which I am one - and the creators - misleadingly called "the world" - about creating and providing works. Now, under the current rules, I and the rest of the public have chosen not to impose explicit mandatory terms of access, but we have in other cases like bandwidth and orphan works, so let's not pretend that we can't do it for you too. You may welsh on the spirit of our agreement while satisfying the letter of our law, and we may choose to overlook it because it's not serious enough a problem to invoke the grim majesty of the legal meatgrinders or for other reasons, but that doesn't eliminate the fact that there is welshing going on here. And you certainly do not get to lecture me about it!"