Help finding a particular Richard Stallman article on sharing nonfree nonsoftware content?
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I swear I read an article written by Stallman in the past where he basically said he's fine with nonsoftware content (movies, music, data in games) being nonfree as long as it remains freely sharable.
I'm having a hard time finding it now though.
Maybe at the following publication, somewhere around p. 150?
"Q: Would it be good to have free licenses for various kinds of works that protect
for every user the freedom to copy them in whatever is the appropriate way for that
kind of work?
RMS: Well, people are working on this. But for non-functional works, one thing
doesn’t substitute for another. Let’s look at a functional kind of work—say, a word
processor. Well, if somebody makes a free word processor, you can use that; you
don’t need the non-free word processors. But I wouldn’t say that one free song
substitutes for all the non-free songs or that one free novel substitutes for all the
non-free novels. For those kinds of works, it’s different. So what I think we simply
have to do is to recognize that these laws do not deserve to be respected. It’s not
wrong to share with your neighbor, and if anyone tries to tell you that you cannot
share with your neighbor, you should not listen to him."
There is this transcript of rms' classical talk entitled "Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks": https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html
Look in particular after "What about works of art and entertainment?".