Comment by thaumasiotes
9 months ago
> Man, that's such an ignorant type of thing to say. Copy does not only mean the act of making a duplicate. Copy also means the words/text directly. Terms like copy editor refer to those that make edits to the copy=>words/text, not those that make edits to the duplicates. Maybe you are unfamiliar with the use of the word in that manner, but that's not the rest of the world's problem. That's a limited knowledge problem on your end.
Do you think freedom of the press involves the right to make any kind of juice you want?
what does that even mean? your sarcasm is so strained it can't even be followed.
Why do you think that the meaning "text" is relevant to the element in copyright? The fact that a word has a particular sense doesn't mean that that sense appears in every use of the word.
And in this case we know that copyright refers to the production of copies, not of copy:
> the Statute of Anne is formally titled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of Copies, during the Times therein mentioned"
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne#Text )
There are no controls other than on making printed copies.